When it reigns, so to speak, it pours. First we get the news that in the 1940s the Federal Bureau of Investigation was watching the Duchess of Windsor on suspicion that she was overly sympathetic to the Nazis — and may even have had an affair with Von Ribbontropp, who had been, before becoming Hitler’s foreign minister, the German ambassador to England. It was concern over Wallis Simpson’s Nazi sympathies, rather than the fact that she was a divorcee, that lead the British government to block her marriage to Edward VIII, who was suspected by his prime minister, Stanley Baldwin, of having his own sympathies for the Nazis, according to documents recently released by the FBI and quoted earlier this year by our Colin Miner. Now comes news that the current Prince of Wales is against going to war in Iraq. The News of the World newspaper in Britain is reporting that a “serious rift” has opened between the heir to the throne of England and the government because the prince “is seen to be against a war on Iraq — and also against America.” It says that Whitehall also believes the prince is sympathetic to the view of his Arab friends that war on Saddam is a bid by America to grab a stake in the Middle East’s oil. And the News of the World goes on to say that despite being colonel-in-chief to 17 regiments, Charles has “shown little public support for the soldiers, airmen and sailors who are about to risk their lives in a Gulf conflict.” It also reports that there are “worries that he makes no secret of his anti-American views in conversations with members of Arab royal families and their leading officials.” It says that one of his closest friends is the former Saudi ambassador in London, Ghazi Algosaibi, who wrote a poem in praise of the first woman suicide bomber and described the Israelis as worse than the Nazis.