The king Over the Water

Four years after edward viii renounced the throne on 11 December 1936, the newly dubbed duke of Windsor was also made governor of the bahamas. Serving from 1940 to 1945, he arrogantly dismissed the country as a “third-rate colony”. but the british government may have appointed the duke to get him out of wartorn europe, where he was accused of having fascist sympathies as well as being the target of several nazi plots. 1945