How Queen Victoria’s Grandson Became Hitler’s Pawn & Favourite Royal
How Queen Victoria’s Grandson Became Hitler’s Pawn & Favourite Royal
Prince Charles Edward was Queen Victoria’s favourite grandson. In 1900, the sixteen-year-old Prince was the only viable British contender for the hugely wealthy Dukedom of Saxe Coburg and Gotha in Germany. Ordered to go by Queen Victoria, he took the title and was transformed from a British Prince i...
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[Adolf Schicklgruber] realised [that] Charles Edward could help deflect attention from Germany’s increasing military strength and aggression. He appointed him president of the newly formed Anglo‐German Fellowship to spread the word that [Schicklgruber] saw Britain as an ally. Charles Edward jumped at the chance. For a man branded a traitor and spurned by the establishment, he could now return to Britain with his head held high, and he owed it all to [Schicklgruber].
Charles Edward is the ideal door‐opener, the ideal icebreaker. To send him over to Britain seems to be the solution for [Schicklgruber]. He will talk to the Prince of Wales, he will encourage pro‐German feeling in Britain, and that’s what he uses him for of course.