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Atlantic Crossing presents a surprising and little-known story to American audiences. But how much should we read into the portrayal of FDR and Martha’s relationship? And what was the true nature of their rapport? David B. Woolner, Senior Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute and author of
The Last 100 Days: FDR at War and at Peace reflects on a friendship that deepened during wartime.
As war in Europe loomed in the spring of 1939, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) launched a strategy he believed would simultaneously strengthen ties with Western democracies, chip away at America’s isolationist attitudes, and begin persuading Congress to ease neutrality laws prohibiting U.S. support for allies at war. FDR used the timely excuse of New York’s 1939 World’s Fair to issue invitations to not only Norway’s Crown Prince Olav and wife Martha, but also to the Crown Prince and Princess of Denmark, and most importantly, to King George VI and Queen Elizabeth
Norway’s crown princess fled the Nazis with her children and lived in Maryland John Kelly It’s typically Britain’s blue bloods who get the royal treatment on PBS’s Sunday night staple, “Masterpiece.” But for the past few weeks, all eyes have been on Norway or at least on Norway’s
Crown Princess Martha and the time she and her three children spent in the United States during World War II. They lived in exile in, of all places, Bethesda, Md. The location was convenient to Washington and to
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who, the show “Atlantic Crossing” makes abundantly clear, was smitten with the crown princess. She was 39 when she arrived.
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