The article attached herein concerns the diplomatic posting to Nassau, Bahamas that was the lot of the Duke of Windsor shortly after the outbreak of World War Two. The Duke and Duchess had met Hitler some two years earlier and, following that error, were overheard on a few occasions making defeatist statements. Wishing to keep him in a spot where he could do no damage and still be monitored, the British Foreign Office granted him the title of "Royal Governor" and posted him to Nassau.
Illustrated by four seldom-seen color photographs that, no doubt, the two were simply delighted to pose for, the interview makes clear just how bored the Windsors were on that hot, sticky island paradise where they remained until the end of the war.
One month later, the Duke would make his Nazi sympathies apparent to one and all in an interview that appeared on the pages of the March 12, 1941 issue of Liberty Magazine.
(A reader pointed out that the source information was not posted on the attached image file; please know that this article first appeared on the tenth page of the February, 1941 issue of Click Magazine)
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