Both Frederika in her own memoir and her loyal friend Lilika Papanicolaou in her 1994 biography of Frederika seem to have known that the queens's passion for meddling in politics was a subject to be entirely avoided in any flattering portrayal of the Queen's life.

White-washing isn't exactly the same thing as an admission of guilt, but it can be a good indicator as to which aspects of a life story the adulatory biographer knows to be most embarrassing.