Click here for Full Issue of EIR Volume 24, Number 48, November 28, 1997 Book Reviews The immorality of the House of Windsor by Scott Thompson her with a “fly-on-the-wall” viewpoint on the internal work- ings of the principal members of the British royal family. Al- The Royals though Kelley is lacking the deeper knowledge of the history by Kitty Kelley and geopolitical goals of the royals, such as found in EIR’s New York: Warner Books, 1997 September 1997 Special Report “The True Story behind the 547 pages, hardbound, $27 Fall of the House of Windsor,” she has written a damning in- dictment of the British royal family in its modern guise. This is especially true in terms of Kelley’s documentation that it was not just King Edward VIII (HRH The Duke of Diana: Her True Story—In Her Own Words Windsor, upon his abdication), who was a party to the House by Andrew Morton of Windsor-directed project to impose Adolf Hitler on a pros- New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997 (second trate Germany, as the marcher-lord for British geopolitical edition) goals. Kelley provides some of the documentation to show 288 pages, hardbound, $22.95 that, among other royals, HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, had ties to the “Hitler Project.” This is most im- portant for current affairs, because Prince Philip today is the The “mainstream media” have treated these two books as “chief enforcer” for the informal Club of the Isles, which is soap opera vignettes, especially in the United States, where the House of Windsor-affiliated rentier-financier oligarchy royalty are often mistaken for their Hollywood pagentry. The created by King Edward VII’s drive to initiate World War I: truth is that both books provide an accurate reading, in the a geopolitical project carried out by the House of Windsor to small, of the ruthless immorality of the House of Windsor, make itself primus inter pares among the surviving monarch- which rules the new British Empire with a velvet glove cover- ies of Europe. Diana, Princess of Wales, referred to this Club ing its iron fist. Since these books can be expected to have a of the Isles as “the Mafia.” The most extensive treatment of mass readership, Executive Intelligence Review is taking this the Club of the Isles can be found in EIR’s Special Report. opportunity to provide a “reader’s guide” to them, which will Another measure of the fact that these books are not hopefully help to inoculate the reader from the “virtual real- merely soap opera, is the vicious response to them by the ity” with which they have been portrayed. House of Windsor and its Club of the Isles allies. Ever since A prominent feature of how the mainstream media have the Aug. 31 assassination of Princess Diana, the House of sought to blunt the books’ impact, is how they selected one Windsor has been in a murderous rage. The appearance of paragraph from Kelley’s book in order to discredit it. That both these books after Diana’s death—Kelley’s had already paragraph was based upon a high-level source report that been written before her demise, and Morton’s was rushed into King George VI was impotent, which necessitated that his a second edition—helped fuel that rage. As Kelley reports in daughters, the future Queen Elizabeth II, and her sister Marga- her introduction, Prince Philip, as the enforcer of what he ret, be created through artificial insemination. Interestingly, calls “The Firm,” took the unprecedented step of twice threat- of all the media which resorted to this “mousecrapping tech- ening to sue the author, even before she had finished her nique” (as it is known in journalism), no one had the audacious book. Although The Royals will probably sell 2 million copies humor to ask: “If this report is true, then what species was worldwide, it has effectively been banned in the United King- used for the artificial insemination?” dom. And, Kelley has indicated that she fears for her safety Actually, Kelley’s book is a serious attempt to present a should she return there. It is no accident, as this review will history of the centuries-old House of Hanover in its 20th-cen- highlight, that author Kitty Kelley is shown on the back cover tury incarnation as the House of Windsor. Kelley conducted of her book prominently waving an American flag. more than five years of research, and, most importantly, she Likewise, when the first edition of Andrew Morton’s Di- conductedhundredsofinterviewswithinsiders,whoprovided ana: Her True Story appeared in 1992, and implied that Prin- EIR November 28, 1997 International 81 © 1997 EIR News Service Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission strictly prohibited. cess Diana’s problems arose from the fact that her husband, disastrous for King George V’s Hohenzollern relatives, who HRH Charles, Prince of Wales, was having an adulterous were overthrown at the conclusion of the conflict. relationship with a married woman, the book elicited wrathful Kelley does not develop the reasons for World War I, condemnations from the lackeys at Buckingham Palace, the which, among others, had as a major goal destroying Ger- prime minister, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and other quar- many, because, despite the oligarchic policies of the Kaiser, ters from within the Club of the Isles. The edition that ap- the nation had become a global scientific, technological, and peared shortly after Princess Diana’s assassination, which industrial power on the American System model, rivalling publicly revealed Diana’s direct role in all phases of the Britain’s hegemony. book’s first edition, provoked Prince Charles to blurt out that World War I also saw the collapse of the British royal Morton was being “callous,” even though Prince Charles had family’s relatives who ruled in Russia, not only because Rus- already admitted on nationwide TV, in front of his children, sia had been prostrated by the war, but because of active that he had, in fact, been carrying on a protracted affair with support by the British Secret Intelligence Service for the Bol- Mrs. Camilla Parker-Bowles, while both were still married. sheviks, through the agency of what some call “The Trust”: a The House of Windsor has good reason to be worried story that has been documented by EIR. As Kelley points out, about these two books, as well as many others on Princess although King George V could have saved his cousins in Diana, that are now in the works. By the time that Princess the family of Tsar Nicholas Romanov, through only a minor Diana had finished her humiliation of the decadent House of military exercise, he refused to lift a finger in answer to their Windsor, with the assistance of various factions within the pleas. This emboldened the Bolsheviks to execute the Tsar Club of the Isles, the House of Windsor was on the ropes. As and his immediate family at Yekaterinburg. Kelley points out in her book, written before the assassination Thus, through the British royal family’s successful or- of Princess Diana, even at that time, between two-thirds and chestration of World War I, there was accomplished the goal three-quarters of the British public thought that Prince of toppling “the Eagles,” or rival empires and their imperial Charles was unsuitable to become King. And, many of these families, leaving the British Empire primus inter pares. subjects agreed with Princess Diana, that Charles should be However, because the royal family had so successfully skipped over in the line of succession, in favor of their eldest nurtured British public hatred of Germany, King George V son, Prince William. had to make some cosmetic changes to deter the very public After Diana’s assassination, polls suggested that the animosity that he had helped engender, from his own German House of Windsor itself might fall. A new poll of a sample of family. One public relations measure was to Anglicize the 1,108 people within the United Kingdom, which was pub- name of the ruling House of Hanover, which had become the lished in the Daily Mail, showed that most Britons believed House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha under Queen Victoria, chang- that Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II should step down and ing it to the House of Windsor, as we have it today. The same hand the crown to a successor, rather than reign until her chameleon trick was applied on King George V’s relative, death. Only 24% of the people sampled in the U.K. thought Prince Battenberg, who as Admiral of the Fleet had mobilized that Queen Elizabeth II should rule until her death. Mean- Britain’s Navy before the outbreak of war. But, because of while, the antipathy to Queen Elizabeth’s heir apparent, his German oligarchical roots, Prince Battenberg was forced Prince Charles, remained the same. The poll showed deep to resign his post upon the outbreak of hostilities, and take the divides over who should succeed Queen Elizabeth II, ranging Anglicized family name of Mountbatten, while assuming the from the Queen’s grandson, Prince William, to her daughter, British title of the First Marquess of Milford Haven. Princess Anne; some responses to the poll indicated a marked One of the ironies that Kelley points to, is that, when growth in republicanism. George V, who had taken so many ruthless steps on behalf It is important to bear in mind that, although Britain has of the British Empire, was lingering near death, his doctor only briefly been ruled without a royal sovereign, there have injected him with a lethal dose of cocaine and heroin, so been numerous changes in the dynasty that ruled.