By Christopher Stevens for the Daily Mail
Published: 00:35 BST, 6 May 2019 | Updated: 00:35 BST, 6 May 2019
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D-Day: The King Who Fooled Hitler
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Talk about On Her Majesty's Secret Service. It seems the Queen has aired one or two ideas about foreign policy over the years that might have required James Bond and his licence to kill.
A fascinating coda, at the end of D-Day: The King Who Fooled Hitler (C4), described a dinner at Buckingham Palace in 1955, during a time of increased Arab nationalism in the Middle East.
Prime Minister Anthony Eden was at the monarch's elbow, as was a Foreign Office mandarin named Evelyn Shuckburgh, who recorded the royal conversation in his diary.
King George VI played a key role in fooling the Nazis as to the Allies' invasion plans ahead of the D-Day landings
Jordan's 19-year-old King Hussein, an Old Harrovian, was under the malign influence of his uncle, Sharif Nasser Bin Jamil.
The Queen remarked pointedly that 'she was surprised nobody had found means of putting something in his coffee'.
The implication seemed obvious — assassination. Shuckburgh was so startled that he could only make a bland joke about how many people might deserve the same treatment. Afterwards, he wished he had thought to remind Queen Elizabeth that Archbishop Thomas Becket was murdered after her predecessor Henry II once made a similar comment out loud.
No one who watched this documentary (and waded through its often irrelevant archive footage) could fail to understand that the Windsors have a warlike side.
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