The queen's uncle, the Duke of Kent, was supposedly friends with Rudolf Hess.
2007-05-01 03:06:23 · 8 answers · asked by JoAnn W 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Royalty
You are quite right about the Duke of Kent being a Nazi as was the Duke of Windsor and many other members of the British Aristocracy.
When Rudolf Hess made his lone flight from Germany in 1941 with the hope of getting Britain to withdraw from the war, so that Germany could move all its forces to attack the Soviet Union later that year, he was aiming to land at the Scottish estate of his old friend the Duke of Hamilton.
Unfortunately for him his plane ran out of fuel and he was forced to bale out ending up in the custody of the local police.
He subsequently spent the rest of his life in prison but there is a lot of doubt whether the man in prison was Hess or a double.
Sometime after the arrival and capture of Hess the Duke of Kent was on a flying boat that took of from Scotland with a flight plan for Iceland.
The plane crashed and all on board were killed including a mysterious extra passenger. The plane was on a course that would have taken it to Sweden.
The theory is that the extra passenger was Rudolf Hess being returned to Germany via neutral Sweden after his mission had been exposed by his capture.
2007-05-01 18:28:25 · answer #1 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have this completely confused. Prince Harry is going to war, following a long line of royal princes who have served in the military. His great-grandfather King George VI, his grandfather Prince Philip, his great-great-uncle Lord Mountbatten, his uncle Prince Andrew etc.
The Duke of Kent was not an accused Nazi. His brother, King Edward VIII, who later abdicated and became Duke of Windsor, was a Nazi sympathizer.
You better do some reading of the history of the Royal Family.
2007-05-01 06:31:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not really sure but I do know that it wasn't his great uncle accused of being a Nazi. It was his great great uncle, Edward, who abdicated to marry Wallis Simpson, a divorcee. And he wasn't the Duke of Kent. When he abdicated as King, he became the Duke of Windsor.
2007-05-01 03:13:20 · answer #3 · answered by Andrew T 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
His going to war has nothng to do with "Proving" or "Making up" for anything.
Harry is following in his family's footsteps. His uncle Andrew fought in the Falklands, his Grandfather Fought in WWII as did his Great-Uncle, the Last Viceroy Mountbatten, etc. Why should he hide behind his Royalty when his family was in the thick of battle along with the other British Citizens. The Queen's father and mother walked with the people and stayed with their subjects in the subways during bombing raids againt England during WWII. They didn't shirk their duty and neither will Harry.
2007-05-01 04:39:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
No, no one has to make up for what anyone else has done, ever. What other people do is BEYOND YOUR CONTROL; and you can't be blamed for it. It would be impossible to "make-up" for someone else's mistakes, simply because without the change of heart and sorrow that goes with it from the lesson of "learning that THEIR ACTIONS WERE WRONG," you may be doing something good, but your just doctoring the wound, not healing it. So, again, you can't apologize for someone else, you can't embarrass someone else (only they can do that), and you can't make up for someone else's mistakes. In a perfect world, maybe, but this is NOT a perfect world. : (
2007-05-01 07:45:34 · answer #5 · answered by AdamKadmon 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-16 20:17:22 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I doubt he's doing it just because his great uncle was a flop.
If he doesn't go, then it would prove to the public that he had special rights....which he shouldn't have. He really has no choice but to go to prove to the public that he is just like the rest of them, and he is going to fight, too.
2007-05-01 03:38:04 · answer #7 · answered by Pumpkin 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
What's the connection between Iraq and Nazis? I don't understand your question.
2007-05-01 04:20:08 · answer #8 · answered by JerH1 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋