DAY 359 | Spying on the Royals

December 1936: King Edward VIII telephoned his brother Bertie to tell him that he could no longer be King if it meant losing the woman he loved, Wallis Simpson. His every word was being scrutinized by intelligence officers. This royal romance can now be seen through a unique new perspective: the eyes of those who spied on Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson, creating a secret dossier unlike any other.

Newly declassified secret files reveal how King George VI himself paid for espionage on his own brother, the former Edward VIII, based on intelligence that Edward was attempting to usurp George VI. Fears of Wallis and Edward’s scheming were so great that Wallis and Edward were tailed, bugged, and their phones tapped in an operation carried out on the orders of the American president himself.

On the cold morning of his execution, Charles I requested two shirts to wear, stating that "the season is so sharp as probably may make me shake, which some observers may imagine proceeds from fear. I would have no such imputation."

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