00:00In October 1937, Edward and Wallace travelled to Germany at the invitation of Nazi officials.
00:07They toured factories and welfare projects, admired new highways, and were photographed.
00:13The pictures showed them smiling, and those images never faded from public memory.
00:18Finally, they visited Adolf Hitler at Berchtesgarten. The pair maintained ties to Joachim
00:24von Ribbentrop, the German ambassador to London, and later Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nazi Germany.
00:31Rumour had it that Wallace and Ribbentrop had an affair in London.
00:35It was said he sent her seventeen carnations, one for each time they had slept together.
00:41The FBI later noted that she was in constant contact with him,
00:45and MI5 worried she might pass on secret information to Nazi Germany.
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00:56The FBI
00:56The FBI
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