A bombshell secret letter from the abdicated King Edward VIII to Adolf Hitler in the run-up to the Second World War has been unearthed in royal archives.
Its sickening contents, hidden for 86 years, would have outraged a British public then living in fear of another bloody and catastrophic war with Germany.
The letter reveals fawning Edward’s adoration of the Nazi leader and his extremist far-right politics – and the way he was running the country.
