Why was Edward VIII not arrested and tried for treason?

The British Secret Services were no slouches during the Second World War. if Edward really was a security risk they would have known about it and for all him being the reigning King's brother they would have sorted him out. read more

It wasn’t treason that Edward VIII had connections with Germany. The British royal family had German ancestry, to say the least. Kaiser Wilhelm II was a grandson of Victoria and therefore a family cousin. Nicholas II and Alexandra were both also family cousins. Queen Victoria wasn’t called the grandmother of Europe for nothing. read more

Under the Treason Act 1351, it is high treason to, amongst other things, "be adherent to the King's enemies in his realm, giving to them aid and comfort in the realm, or elsewhere" (this is the usual translation - the original Act is in Norman French, as England was ruled in the Norman French language at the time, a legacy of the Norman Conquest of 1066). read more

Daughter of Catherine and Henry VIII, tried to return England to Catholicism, killed many protestant heretics, married Philip II of Spain. Elizabeth I Daughter of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII, succeeded the thrown after Mary, changed the religion back to Anglicanism. read more