There is no
doubt that it is an extraordinary image. Just ten months before it was
captured, the man at its centre was the King of Great Britain, Ireland
and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Defender of the Faith, and
Emperor of India.
And
yet here he is, the uncle of our present Queen, surrounded by beaming
Nazi bigwigs, proudly giving a Heil Hitler salute, looking for all the
world like some despicable Fascist puppet dictator.
The
photograph emerged only this week when an auction house in Wales
announced that it was up for sale, along with many similar photographs
from the Duke of Windsor’s trip to Germany in October 1937.
Coincidentally,
it comes in the wake of the publication of a jaw-dropping home movie
showing our Queen, then a seven-year-old princess, giving a Nazi salute
in 1933, abetted by the Duke, who was then the Prince of Wales.
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