The Royal Archives may help one deduce whether the Duke of Windsor helped the Nazis bomb Buckingham Palace but do not expect to find out anything about Prince Philip, a historian granted rare access to the treasure trove has said.
Alexander Larman, whose books on the royal family between the wars outline the duke’s wartime assistance to Germany and MI5’s alleged collusion with an assassination attempt, said he had been surprised at the amount of information available in the archive at Windsor Castle. He told the Oxford Literary Festival yesterday that a royal archivist had said: “We are not in the business of protecting the Duke of Windsor’s reputation.”
