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Old 26-03-2008, 19:15   #19
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Re: Queen Elizabeth II's legacy

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Originally Posted by steeljack View Post
interesting concept .... (sorry bit of a wander) if the German bombs that hit Buckingham Palace in WW2 (Queen Mother " now I can look the East End in the face" ) had taken the royal family out , would Churchill have brought back the Duke of Windsor ? a friend of Hitler or put the drug addled Duke of Kent on the throne or gone for the country squire the Duke of Gloucester or would he have taken Cromwells route and made himself "lord protector" ......wonder if there are any records rat-holed away
Interesting ... the King is dead, long live the King .... but who? There probably are records somewhere .... govts. have to have contingency plans. It would make a good book, or a PhD thesis from some aspiring academic. But the British govt. has a very bad record on doctoring war time records from both of the wars. If there are any records they could be found in the archives of the Dominions as the British govt shared all records with them. In order to write his book "Haig's Command" Denis Winter found uncensored govt documents in the Canadian and Australian archives.
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