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The BrainFood Show

What Did the British Royals Get Up to During WWII?

The BrainFood Show

Cloud10

History, Education

4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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During WWI, the senior members of the British Royal family kept awfully busy. One of them shattered his pelvis when a near thousand pound horse decided to ride him instead of the other way around, another one enjoyed some time in the trenches and examining early tanks, his brother came under fire from German warships, and their sister distributed nicotine and ‘acid tablets’ to soldiers and sailors in gift boxes. If you want to learn more about their adventures, and misadventures - including whether or not they should be held responsible for the execution of the Russian royal family, as suggested by a certain Netflix crowning achievement of streaming entertainment- well, take a look at our video here on YouTube What Did the British Royals Get Up to During WWI? if you haven’t already. Among other things that video also includes a great The Road Not Taken tie in and why almost everyone universally gets that poem’s meaning quite incorrect in rather ironic ways, as well as how the man it was written about also initially misinterpreted Frosts’ intent, which was mostly just to tease him, and how that all partially helped lead to that man’s death in WWI as a result. But that was WWI. What about the story of the world’s most famous royals during WWII? Well, in what follows we will discover how a sailor Prince saved his entire crew from almost certain death via a rather spur of the moment scheme, which Monarch would be best suited to fix your carburettor, how many secret plans a King can set in motion without his nation finding out, whether the former King of England, as is often stated, really tried to buddy up to Hitler to help get his throne back after being forced to abdicate a few years earlier, and why his other brother is at the centre of a similar major conspiracy theory involving no less than Winston Churchill himself ordering his death… So, strap on your royal cape, grab your shrubbery and holy hand grenades, and let’s dive into what the British royals got up to during WWII. Authors: Arnaldo Teodorani and Daven Hiskey Editor: Daven Hiskey Host: Daven Hiskey Producer: Samuel Avila 0:00 Intro 3:20 The King is Killed and the Troublesome Heir 16:18 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth 20:57 The King’s Secret Plan 23:48 ‘Lilibet’ and ‘Margot’ 25:31 Philip of Mountbatten's Badassery 30:46 The Duke of Windsor's Virtual Exile and the Nazi Plan to Make Him King of England Again 56:14 The Duke of Gloucester 58:18 The Duke of Kent, A Plane Crash, and a Conspiracy 1:14:04 King George’s Secret Missions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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British Royal family kept awfully busy. One of them shattered his pelvis when a near

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enjoyed some time in the trenches and examining early tanks.

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