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she - and the King through her, were
in direct intercourse with Germany. When
we returned from abroad - I met her
by accident at supper - and she came
up to me. I said we had just come home,
and were really scandalised at the reports
in the Press - she said- she was "an
innocent victim and put on the spot" and
that it was a Bolshevist plot " to which
I replied - that if it was, it was an
extremely clever one - as it was the only
way to bring the British Monarchy down -
which indeed it might if things got any
worse". She got quite rigid and clenched
her hands - then she said "thank you
so much for telling me - no one tells "him"
these things (which was not true as far as