{"id":397555,"date":"2025-09-04T15:19:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T15:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/397555\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T15:19:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T15:19:17","slug":"distributor-seeks-uk-broadcaster-to-back-docuseries-about-british-monarchys-ties-to-hitler-nazi-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/397555\/","title":{"rendered":"Distributor Seeks UK Broadcaster to Back Docuseries About British Monarchy\u2019s Ties to Hitler, Nazi Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-752337\" class=\"lazyload size-full wp-image-752337\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Duc_et_duchesse_de_Windsor_avec_Hitler_1937-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"360\"  data-\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-752337\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Duke and Duchess of Windsor photographed with Adolf Hitler, Oct. 22, 1937, during their visit to The Berghof, his country house in Berchtesgaden. Photo: Provided<\/p>\n<p>The content producer and distributor Keshet International (KI) has signed a deal with the Scottish production company Caledonia TV to co-develop a three-part historical docuseries about the British royal family\u2019s controversial connections to Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany, KI announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Keshet International and Caledonia TV are looking to partner with a British broadcast on \u201cHitler\u2019s Favorite Royals\u201d before launching pre-sales at MIPCOM, the annual trade show for the television industry held in Cannes, France, that will take place in October. The series is being produced by Caledonia TV.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom Queen Victoria\u2019s dynastic ties to Germany to Hitler\u2019s attempts to leverage those connections during World War II, the series will expose secret meetings, coded correspondence, and covert diplomacy between London and Berlin,\u201d according to a description of the docuseries provided by KI. \u201cWith newly uncovered evidence and expert insight, it reveals how these links were later concealed through buried archives and suppressed records, shining new light on the monarchy\u2019s entanglement with Nazi Germany.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHitler\u2019s Favorite Royals\u201d is being executive produced by award-winning producer and historian Dean Palmer. The docuseries will be created based on Palmer\u2019s 2021 book, Tea with Hitler: The Secret History of the Royal Family and the Third Reich, as well as research with the University of London of new archival materials. KI\u2019s SVP of Acquisitions and Co-production Anke Stoll said the \u201cextensive research and access to new archive materials adds layers of extra color, depth and detail to what we already think we know about the Royal Family\u2019s connections to Hitler and the Nazis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis series rips the lid off one of the monarchy\u2019s darkest secrets \u2013 what the Queen\u2019s German cousins did during World War II and their ties to Hitler,\u201d said Palmer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Duke and Duchess of Windsor photographed with Adolf Hitler, Oct. 22, 1937, during their visit to The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[5105,7710,519,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-397555","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-royal","9":"tag-royal-families","10":"tag-royal-family","11":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115146704330499086","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}