[Nick Beale]

"Obviously we have not been able to verify this for ourselves, but if true it has enormous implications" That says it all really, "we have no actual evidence, but imagine if we had ..."

Also, the second half of what Tony quotes only has a tenuous relationship to the first bit. Whilst it's true that the British Establishment is always concerned to protect the symbolism of the Monarchy, the idea that any Nazi sympathies on the part of any one member of the Royal Family would have been allowed to influence the conduct of the war is laughable. Time and again throughout British history, a group of powerful figures has got together to choose and install the next monarch and that very process suggests that its the idea of the monarchy that is important to them, not reverence for the individual selected or his/her opinions.