I fear he’ll get into trouble,’ thanks to his ‘love of playing the despot and showing off’. She added, ‘It’s indeed a misfortune for us all that W…is imbued with prejudices, false notions and mistaken ideas…so unripe of character and judgement…Power was put into his hands which he so often abuses.’ Vicky had foresight too: ‘The worst of it is that we shall perhaps all have to pay for his ignorance and impudence.’ She meant war.
