Hitler's Favourite Royal

The extraordinary story of the British prince who became a convicted Nazi. Prince Charles Edward was Queen Victoria's youngest grandchild. Brought up in Claremont House and educated at Eton, he was forced by his grandmother to take up the Dukedom of Coburg in Germany. Transformed overnight from a British Prince to a German Duke, the course of his life was altered in ways he could never have imagined as he found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. He refused to fight against the British in WWI, but after the conflict was stripped of his English titles. A year later he lost his German titles as well, when Germany became a Republic. Depressed and disillusioned, he turned to far right politics, which seemed to offer return to order and a new role for him. Charles Edward became an enthusiastic early supporter of the emergent Nazi Party and unwittingly helped in Hitler's rise to power - and his support for Hitler remained undiminished as War approached.