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The Duke and Duchess of Windsor were defined by the story of their love, of a king abdicating his throne for a commoner. But there’s a lesser-known aspect of their relationship: their ties to the Third Reich. Edward VIII could have been the Nazi king.
Wednesday’s podcast brought us a different sort of kingly tale: the matchup between King Porus and Alexander the Great at the Battle of the Hydaspes.
Take one rich heiress and mix with one vaguely Marxist, militant organization and you get one heck of a story: the kidnapping of Patty Hearst, which we discussed this week in the podcast
Hearst was a socialite kidnap victim, but before long, she was renouncing her family as pigs and joining the SLA in armed robbery before spending some time in prison.
We also talked about King Edward VIII abdicating his throne for an American divorcee, Wallis Simpson. Is the tale of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor a love story, or something more tragic?
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