At the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, the British
government, alarmed at the Duke and Duchess of Windsor's
association with the Nazis and the possibility that they would
remove themselves to the United States to preach their pacifist
(and slightly pro-German) credo, decided that a job had to be found
for the ex-King Edward VIII. and his wife, the American, Wallis
Simpson. He was appointed Governor of The Bahamas, one of the
smallest and least important possessions of the British Empire, far
away from the scene of battle.
Away from their sybaritic living in the south of France, the
couple struggled unhappily with the very different lifestyle of
minor colonial life. This story is of their successes and their
failures during their last official service to The British--and of
the only Royal Governor to have served in British colonial
history.
Owen Platt's recounting of their escapades in wartime Bahamas is
a fascinating insight into a little known aspect of British
history.
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