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mp sf list 0 title: Fact or Fiction: Martha barged into the bedroom of the terminally ill president.
mp sf list 0 description: FICTION: “We had to put an end to the relationship between Martha and Franklin,” says series co-writer and historian Linda May Kallestein. “When [Martha] realized he was dying, it was important for her to say goodbye. What they said to each other behind closed doors is not documented and we thought: How could the last meeting have been?”
“In the series, we go from seeing strong Roosevelt in 1942 to a weakened man in 1944. Crown Princess Martha becomes the viewers’ eyes in the development of his disease,” Kallestein explains. She adds that, according to President Roosevelt’s calendar, he and Martha did not meet much in the last days of his life. He died on April 12, 1945.
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The TV miniseries
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