Confidences
Rather than blame HM, to me it shows just how honorably The Queen maintains the secrets entrusted to her by her British and other PMs. I wouldn’t get on a leaky ship. When she speaks with her various PMs, the confidence entrusted is more like that of a confessional (absolute) rather than that if an attorney with clients with conflicting interests. She regards each Crown separately, and definitely observes the Top Secrecy if her Red Boxes. In this case, maybe in 50 years (or whenever the general rule is when secret papers are subject to being made public) we might see that she tried to counsel in favor of the Anzac dominions, which is all that she could do. Spilling the beans would have had larger constitutional ramifications.
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