The Backstory: Was This Royal A Nazi?
Elvis Duran and the Morning Show ON DEMAND
Elvis Duran Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
The royals can seem like a bunch of people with too much money but with good intentions for their nation and their people. The scandals involving Charles and Diana . . and Harry and Megan are great tabloid fodder. But the 1936 abdication of King Edward VIII had a much darker backstory. It turns out he had a deeply close relationship with Adolf Hitler and the Nazis during World War II, and the royals had to do everything in their power to bury it.
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| 0:00.0 | So here's the thing. We're either fascinated, amused, or bored when it comes to stories about the |
| 0:05.4 | royals, but everybody has an opinion. Well, guess what? That's nothing new. The sex scandals, |
| 0:11.7 | family squabbles, weddings, new royal babies get a lot of attention. But one of the biggest |
| 0:17.0 | stories of the past 100 years seems pretty similar to a recent royal scandal. |
| 0:22.3 | A guy walks away from the royal life and the boatloads of money that comes with it |
| 0:26.8 | so he can live the life he chooses with the woman he loves. |
| 0:30.4 | That's Prince Harry and Megan Markle in 2020. |
| 0:33.3 | And we all thought it was a repeat of the abdication of King Edward the 8th |
| 0:37.8 | when he gave up the throne in 1936 to marry another American divorcee, Wallace Simpson. |
| 0:44.8 | But not so fast. |
| 0:46.1 | I'm Patty Steele. |
| 0:47.5 | Was King Edward pushed off the throne because he was a Nazi sympathizer? |
| 0:52.1 | That's next on the backstory. |
| 0:56.5 | This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. |
| 1:02.0 | The backstory is back. Prince Harry and Megan Markle have been gossiped about for going on 10 years now. |
| 1:09.3 | Some of the snarkiness is deserved and some just the price you |
| 1:12.9 | pay for royalty, money, and international attention. They've frequently been compared to Harry's |
| 1:18.0 | great-great-uncle, King Edward VIII, who got demoted to Duke of Windsor after he left the throne. |
| 1:24.6 | But for him, it seems his departure was less about love and more about |
| 1:30.1 | his Nazi sympathies. Here's his story. Before his mega scandal, Edward was the golden prince, |
| 1:37.1 | the handsome future king. Thanks to the press and the new world of film, he was really the first |
| 1:43.7 | celebrity royal. Women adored him. |
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