For sure, there were many who would have prepared to cut a deal with Hitler - let him have Europe (and to hell with the strategy of not letting any major power dominate there) in return for the inviolability of the empire.
When I a was a kid, fresh off TV airings of Scarlet Pimpernel & Ivanhoe, I developed an unfortunate pash for Anthony Andrews. This led to my uncritical absorption of him as Edward VII in The Woman He Loved, which led to my being very sad about the poor man had to quit his job because he loved that nice divorced lady.
Anyway, screw that anti-Semitic, racist son of an imperialist nightmare, screw his Nazi-loving wife, and for good measure, yeet the house of windsor directly into the sun.
I recall reading a great twitter thread a while back that covered a lot of the nazi interplay in british high society in the years prior to ww2. really should re-find that and get it archived (and/or find some other primary sources to read about it)
For sure, there were many who would have prepared to cut a deal with Hitler - let him have Europe (and to hell with the strategy of not letting any major power dominate there) in return for the inviolability of the empire.
i mean they were huge fans and think Britain joined the wrong side of the war
When I a was a kid, fresh off TV airings of Scarlet Pimpernel & Ivanhoe, I developed an unfortunate pash for Anthony Andrews. This led to my uncritical absorption of him as Edward VII in The Woman He Loved, which led to my being very sad about the poor man had to quit his job because he loved that nice divorced lady.
Anyway, screw that anti-Semitic, racist son of an imperialist nightmare, screw his Nazi-loving wife, and for good measure, yeet the house of windsor directly into the sun.
I recall reading a great twitter thread a while back that covered a lot of the nazi interplay in british high society in the years prior to ww2. really should re-find that and get it archived (and/or find some other primary sources to read about it)