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From Wondry, I'm Alice Levin.

I'm Matt Ford.

And this is British Scandal.

Now, although it sounds like two different people have been shipped in to do this job, which, to be honest, our days were numbered.

So we thought it would happen. In fact, I've just lost my voice inconveniently at the same time that you have...

I had a wisdom tooth removed and they weren't entirely honest about the recovery period.

Which is not an issue in an audio medium, is it?

So Matt, it is the end of our series, the abdication. And we've finally done what we've been aiming to do for many months now.

And throw the royals into the big pit of British Scandal.

This is Ben. I'm sure you'll agree. A veritable feast of pomp and circumstance.

Yeah, I mean, you can't help the irresistible parallels between Wallace Simpson and Diana, but even more mega-marcle.

So it's incredible that this story keeps repeating itself in the modern European story of a woman who marries into the royal family and then is treated very badly.

And the mind-blowing Nazi element to this, which is incredible. Where you've got a former king hanging around with Adolf Hitler and allowing himself to be courted by the Nazi party at a time when Winston Churchill is rightfully concerned about information being passed into enemy hands.

And at one point, arguably information being divulged through the side. So there are so many incredible things about it.

And it's unbelievable that that information about Edward and his links to Hitler didn't come to light till just a few years ago.

And today, we're going to speak to the author that did just that. Andrew Launey is a literary agent and biographer who wrote the traitor king, which used unexplored archive material to uncover the truth about Edward and Wallace's relationship and their ties to Nazism.

He joins us next.

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