The House of Windsor and the Hitler Project
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Click here for Full Issue of Fidelio Volume 7, Number 1, Spring 1998 gave a no-holds-barred interview to Monarchy, and, as such, was a target of drunk driving. BBC television, in which she declared hatred from the Royal apparatus, It was this issue—the strategic battle her then-estranged husband Prince which she referred to, with disdain, as over the fate of the House of Windsor— Charles unqualified to serve as King. “The Firm.” “The Firm” has, so far, that the authors failed to raise, in the Right up to her dying day, Princess benefitted greatly from Princess course of their otherwise worthwhile Diana never abandoned her fight Diana’s death; and they certainly have a attempt to sort out the fact from the fic- against the Windsors. She represented great vested interest in assuring that tion about the death of a princess. an existential threat to the British her death goes down as a tragic case of —Jeffrey Steinberg The House of Windsor and the Hitler Project he “mainstream media” have treat- royals, the royal consort, HRH The Ted this book as a series of soap- Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, had opera vignettes. However, the truth is ties to the “Hitler Project.” that Kelley’s book is a serious attempt to present a history of the centuries-old The Royals and the Nazis House of Hanover in its 20th-century First, Kelley identifies the pro-Nazi sen- incarnation as the House of Windsor. timents of George V’s successor, King Kelley conducted more than five years Edward VIII, who was forced to abdi- of research, and conducted hundreds of cate in 1936. Actually, King Edward interviews with insiders, who provided VIII’s abdication represented a cold her with a “fly-on-the-wall” viewpoint coup d’état by a faction of the Club of on the internal workings of the principal the Isles, which had come to see Hitler members of the British Royal Family. as an uncontrollable Frankenstein mon- The book’s main flaw, is Kelley’s lack of ster. Kelley notes that after the Duke of The Royals a deeper knowledge of the history and Windsor’s abdication, he entered into by Kitty Kelley geopolitical goals of the Royals. negotiations with Adolf Hitler, who was New York, Warner Books, 1997 A prominent feature of how the then considering an invasion of the 547 pages, hardbound, $27.00 mainstream media have sought to blunt United Kingdom, and who offered to the book’s impact, is how they selected reinstate the Duke and Duchess of one paragraph from Kelley’s book, in Windsor upon the British throne as ston Churchill forced the Duke of order to discredit it. That paragraph puppet monarchs. Windsor to sail from Lisbon to exile in was based upon a high-level source Actually, as Arts & Entertainment the Bahamas. report, that King George VI was impo- documented in a recent Biography televi- Most importantly, Kelley states that tent, which necessitated that his daugh- sion broadcast, the Duke of Windsor’s relevant documents in this affair are ters, the future Queen Elizabeth II, and treason went even deeper than Kelley kept by The Queen Mother Queen Eliz- her sister Margaret, be conceived suspected. When a Luftwaffe aircraft abeth (i.e., Queen Elizabeth II’s moth- through artificial insemination. Interest- crashed carrying the Nazis’ plans for er), who has sole access to them in her ingly, no one had the audacious humor their thrust through Belgium, it was the vault at Clarence House. Kelley’s to ask: “If this report is true, then what Duke of Windsor who informed Hitler debunking of The Queen Mother as the species was used for the artificial insemi- that the plans had been captured. Hitler custodian of these secrets is long past nation?” was thus able to reorganize 60 divisions, due, since the “Queen Mum” is wor- This is especially true in terms of Kel- so that he flanked the Allied defending shipped by Britain’s subjects. ley’s documentation that it was not just forces, which had taken up positions King Edward VIII (HRH The Duke of thinking Hitler would carry through his Prince Philip, Nazi Enforcer Windsor, upon his abdication), who was original plan. Within 37 days, the Nazis Moreover, Kelley notes that within the a party to the House of Windsor-direct- were marching through Paris, and the space of nine months in 1930, Prince ed project to impose Adolf Hitler on a Duke of Windsor deserted his post for Philip’s four older sisters each married prostrate Germany, as the marcher-lord the Iberian Peninsula, where, during his members of the German aristocracy, all for British geopolitical goals to destroy negotiations to return to the British of whom were active supporters of both Russia and Germany through throne at the head of the Wehrmacht, Adolf Hitler. One of Philip’s uncles-in- Hitler’s Drang Nach Osten [Drive to the he sent a message that Britain would law by these marriages, Christoph of East]. Kelley provides some of the docu- capitulate to aerial bombardment. That Hesse, became head of the secret elec- mentation to show that, among other bombardment began the day Sir Win- tronic eavesdropping office in Goering’s 102 © 1998 Schiller Institute, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission strictly prohibited. research office, which eventually Philip from corresponding with their World War I seen the House of Wind- became the Gestapo. pro-Nazi relatives in Germany. For, it sor as primus inter pares within a Doge Kelley understates the importance was Lord Louis Mountbatten who system). Prince Philip demonstrated his of Prince Philip’s schooling in Nazi became one of their most important “enforcer” role as head of the World- Germany at the Schloss Salem school back-channels, through his sister Louise, wide Fund for Nature, where, in the of Kurt Hahn, as being merely a com- the Crown Princess of pro-Nazi Swe- name of preserving the environment, he bination of cold showers and rigorous den. Moreover, Prince Philip developed has murdered more Africans than Adolf exercise. In fact, by the time Prince ties to the Duke of Windsor, who used Hitler ever dreamed of. On more than Philip’s pro-Nazi sister Theodora had this same back-channel from his post in one occasion, Prince Philip has said in arranged for him to come from Britain exile. public: “In the event that I am reincar- to attend Schloss Salem, the S.S. had As for Queen Elizabeth’s royal con- nated, I would like to return as a deadly arrested Hahn, and the original rigors sort, HRH The Prince Philip, his early virus, in order to contribute something of the “strength through joy” curricu- Nazi race science training has led him to to solve overpopulation.” lum of the school had been trans- outdo Hitler. As part of her “deal” with Kitty Kelley’s revelation that the formed by a hefty contribution of Nazi Prince Philip, the Queen made him the House of Windsor had a direct hand in “race science.” “chief enforcer” for what aristocratic the “Hitler Project” is one of many Kelley is also wrong when she says insiders call “The Club of the Isles” themes within her book that make it that Lord Louis Mountbatten discour- (being a coalition of landed and highly recommended reading. aged the House of Windsor and Prince financier oligarchs, who have since —Scott Thompson Hamilton, Without the Revolution (Or, LaRouche, Without LaRouche) his interesting, useful, and very tradition that could lead the world Tfrustrating book reprints and inter- away from the abyss to which recent prets selections from 18th-, 19th-, and policy has led us. But, with these 20th-century statesmen and writers. promising themes, the argument But, Michael Lind’s anthology is a descends into a terrible historical mud- survey of two opposite points of view— dle, which renders the book increasing- the republican, and the oligarchical— ly silly as it proceeds into 20th-century joined together and falsely labelled matters. Lind avoids any discussion of “Hamiltonianism.” America’s struggle with the British Lind vigorously defends Alexander Empire and the British-centered finan- Hamilton’s Republic: Hamilton, the first U.S. Treasury Secre- cial oligarchy. This makes for absurd Readings in the American tary, as the mastermind of the Federal history, since the American Revolution, Democratic Nationalist policy in the first years of the republic, and American nationalism since then, Tradition edited by Michael Lind whose outlook ultimately shaped the have been in fundamental opposition to New York, Free Press, 1997 industrialization and rise of the U.S.A. the latter. 345 pages, hardbound, $25.00 as a great power. Refuting slanders of For example, Lind asserts: “For Hamilton as aristocratic, Lind shows he much of the era between 1914 and 1989, worked to dissolve aristocracy and Hamiltonian realists and Wilsonian “American Realism,” which in Lind’s destroy slavery. globalists . have been allied against mind continues Hamiltonian national- What Lind calls Hamilton’s “demo- isolationists. [T]he boundaries ism: “American Realism proceeds from cratic nationalism” is upheld against between globally minded Hamiltonian the assumption that the Pax Britannica attack from both the leftists, who realism and muscular Wilsonian idealism of the Nineteenth century was a bless- equate it with “authoritarian tyranny became very blurred, with both groups ing, preserving peace, trade, and travel and . repression of minorities,” and tending to support anti-Soviet alliances around the world. The United States from the right, which “identifies like NATO and free trade (which has taken Britain’s place as the balancer nationalism with protectionism and a Hamiltonians treated as an expedient to of the world.