Forwood was probably right when he maintained that the Duke of Windsor’s chief purpose in going to Germany was to make the Duchess feel like a queen. For what better way of doing that than by giving her a ‘state’ visit? Above all, Forwood remarked, ‘he wanted to prove to her that he had lost nothing by abdicating’.42 There was only one country where such a visit could be successfully carried off and that of course was Germany.
