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tHe king Over tHe Water
Four years after edward viii renounced the throne on
11 December 1936, the newly dubbed duke of Windsor
was also made governor of the bahamas. Serving from
1940 to 1945, he arrogantly dismissed the country as a
“third-rate colony”. but the british government may
have appointed the duke to get him out of war-
torn europe, where he was accused of having
fascist sympathies as well as being the
target of several nazi plots.
1945

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