A Conspiracy of Crowns: The True Story of the Duke of Windsor and the Murder of Sir Harry Oakes

The richest man in the British Empire. Four wounds no one can explain. And the son-in-law the Crown tried to hang for it.

On a humid July night in 1943, the richest man in the British Empire was murdered in his own bed. Sir Harry Oakes was found scorched and bloody in his Nassau mansion, his skull pierced by four small, identical holes in an almost perfect square above his left ear. The wounds were made by a weapon that has never been found, never been named, and never been explained.

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