the windsors came to the throne in 1952.
the windsors came to the throne in 1952.
when did the windsors come to the throne?
1952
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the windsors returned to paris on 24 october, and had two weeks to prepare for the intended tour of the united states. however, the week after the windsors returned to paris, the nazis executed two kpd organisers and labour leaders, and robert stamm. they were widely admired for their trades unionist sympathies and anti-nazism among the american labour movement, and their deaths swung popular opinion against the duke's intended visit. bedaux, too, was irreparably damaged by the after-effects of the windsors' german tour; the following year, his businesses there were confiscated by the nazis for a second—and final—time, and his reputation suffered so badly in america that his businesses there were forcibly taken over by a us-based subordinate. this, combined with criticism from the american jewish lobby, persuaded windsor to cancel the tour; windsor may also have believed that "he had been taken in" by bedaux, and backed off from his us tour for that reason. either way, the cancellation of what was intended to demonstrate his leadership qualities to the world proved sufficiently traumatic for the duke to induce him to retire from public life for the next year. the british government subsequently moved the windsors to the bahamas, where the duke had been made governor; it is generally assumed that the motivation for this appointment was government suspicions as to his sympathies and a desire to remove him from the european theatre for the duration of world war ii.
duke and duchess of windsor's tour of germany, 1937