![]() He’d given his secret lover £110,000 ($125,000) worth of jewels. ![]() Initially, when the heir to the British throne was under Special Branch surveillance, the spotlight was on Edward’s party-fueled lifestyle dotted with fascist hangers-on, Nazi sympathizers, and an American socialite and divorcee named Wallis Simpson. ![]() One of the most extraordinary surveillance operations in UK history involved King Edward VIII, at the time better known worldwide as the Playboy Prince.Įdward’s louche lifestyle alarmed government and intelligence circles in the 1930s - so much so, British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin had him watched by Scotland Yard with the blessing of Edward’s father, King George V, who suspected his son was being blackmailed. ![]()
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