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But to be fair, she did do one more thing. In her spare time, she supported far right politics. She was a passionate defender of appeasing Adolf Hitler, lobbying behind the scenes to garner support for Neville Chamberlain. The reasons are plain: even fifty years later, she bragged to Woodrow Wyatt that she had reservations about Jews. Once the war began, she was rebranded as a symbol of Britains heroic resistance to the Nazis -- but what did she actually do? Unlike everyone else, she didnt live on rations, but was fattened by pheasants and venison on the royal estates. She didnt stay in bombed-out London anything like as much as the myth suggests: she spent much of the war in Windsor, Norfolk and Scotland, far from the Nazi planes, surrounded by battalions of servants. Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon kept up her support for far-right politics throughout her life. She did everything she could to bolster the torturing of white minority tyrannies in Rhodesia and South Africa, because -- as the journalist Paul Callan, who knew her, put it -- She is not fond of black folk. Our beaming Queen Mum was Alf Garnett in a tiara. - huffingtonpost/johann-hari/can-we-finally-tell-the-t_b_299297.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false
Posted on: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 18:11:04 +0000

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