Template:Did you know nominations/Duke and Duchess of Windsors' tour of Germany, 1937


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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 22:54, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

Duke and Duchess of Windsors' tour of Germany, 1937

 * ... that when the Duke and Duchess of Windsor toured Germany in 1937, they were chauffeured by the alcoholic Robert Ley, who, drunk at the wheel, crashed them through a factory gate at high speed? Source: (for chauffeur and alcoholism) Cadbury, D. (2015), Princes at War: The British Royal Family's Private Battle in the Second World War, London, Bloomsbury; & (for drunken gate crashing) Brendon, P. (2016), Edward VIII (Penguin Monarchs): The Uncrowned King, London, Penguin
 * Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/F. W. Bernstein

Created by Serial Number 54129 (talk). Self-nominated at 20:18, 28 December 2018 (UTC).


 * I'll be reviewing this article. epicgenius (talk) 16:56, 29 December 2018 (UTC)


 * To do my bit to help with the comma shortage, let me suggest:
 * ALT1 ... that during the Duke and Duchess of Windsor's 1937 tour of Germany, their alcoholic driver Robert Ley crashed them through a factory gate at high speed?
 * I think the reader will figure out for himself the connection between the alcoholism and the high-speed crash, and even if he doesn't the image of a duke crashing through a factory gate is plenty hooky. EEng 03:41, 17 January 2019 (UTC)