Spying on the royals (2dl)

04-apr-2017 Channel 4

Newly available evidence blows the lid on one of Britain's most controversial espionage operations: when our spies targeted and tailed our own royal family and even tapped their phone calls.

Episode Summary: British spies targeted Edward VIII, Wallis Simpson and George VI. New evidence reveals the extent of the surveillance, who ordered it, and the unique insights it provided into the royal scandal.

Episode 2

In the States, American spies tap Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson's phone and bug their room. And in 1940 Edward and Wallis visit a known Nazi collaborator in Lisbon, under covert surveillance.