Comments by "Faithless Hound" (@faithlesshound5621) on "The King's WWII Secret - Did George VI Abuse His Power?" video.

@zetectic7968 George V thought that if he gave asylum to the Czar and his family, the House of Windsor would be next. Was he right? That war ended the German, Austrian, Russian and Turkish Empires.
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@commodorezero The late Queen lived long enough to become aware of more scandals that she thought would be best left lying undisturbed.
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As one of your small band of non-Nazi viewers, I am afraid that I fail to share the expected indignation about King George VI's use of public resources and manpower to help out his German relatives. Anyone with long experience of work in either the public or the private sector will have become aware of the use of institutional resources to help out the friends and relatives of those in charge, whether of the CEO or a lowly door-keeper. The war in Europe was over at this point, so it's not as if the men of the Cheshire Regiment or the art treasure retrieval squad were being kept from defeating the enemy, nor were resources being taken away from schools and hospitals. In peacetime the army devotes a lot of time and effort to parading up and down in fancy dress. That was the opportunity-cost of the king's favour to his relatives. Ernest Augustus and the Hanoverians may not have received the King's largesse with clean hands, but that and other wars made strange bedfellows. Think of the Sword of Stalingrad handed by Churchill to Stalin in 1943 on behalf of King George, or the honours later poured on the plucky Nicolai Ceausescu, whom we have since learned to revile. Other monsters who got more than they deserved when it suited their Western benefactors include Saddam Hussein, Bashar al-Assad and Pol Pot.
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