Hitler's Favourite Royal covers the life of Prince Charles Edward, Queen Victoria's youngest grandchild, who was forced by his Grandmother to take up the Dukedom of Coburg in Germany after a series of unexpected deaths of uncles and cousins. With the advent of World War One, he reluctantly fought for the German army but refused to fight the British. However, once the war was over, he was stripped of his English titles. Disillusioned, he turned to far right politics and became an enthusiastic early supporter of the emergent Nazi Party and unwittingly helped in Hitler's rise to power. The press blurb describes it as the "tragic story of the little English prince who turned Nazi".
In Friday's Guardian Lucy Mangan writes:
Hitler's Favourite Royal (Channel 4) may have made me a monarchist. Not, of course, because of its subject, Prince Leopold Charles Edward - a Nazi-loving blot whom the Windsors have been trying to wipe from the escutcheon for the last 70 years - but because of its inclusion of clips from a 1977 television interview with his sister, Princess Alice. Aged 94, she was a giggling confection of pink hair and delight, recalling idyllic days when she and Charles Edward would visit their grandmother Queen Victoria. "She was awf'lly nice! When we lorst our front teeth, she used to give us a pound!" Once, the princess had lorst three teeth between visits and presented them all proudly to the queen. "'Oh dear!' she said - 'That's very expensive!'" Alice giggled anew, clearly more inclined that her grandmamma to amusement.
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