Newly available evidence blows the lid on one of Britain's most controversial espionage operations: when our spies targeted and tailed our own royal family and even tapped their phone calls Recently declassified documents have revealed how British spooks eavesdropped on Edward VIII and his American lover, Wallis Simpson, at the time of the abdication crisis. As this two-part documentary reveals, the spies also kept a close watch on the future George VI.