Wimpole Muse
When Rudolf Hess flew to Britain he immediately requested a meeting with the Duke of Hamilton. Hamilton was a member of the Cliveden Set – named after Lord Astor’s Buckinghamshire pile where Christine Keeler was ‘accidentally’ seen by John Profumo swimming in the nude – which was formed by a group of toff’s that wished to negotiate a peace deal with Hitler’s Nazis. What prompted this proposal – besides a shared ideology with the Fuhrer – was the realization that should the noise of Nazi Jackboots ever be heard marching on British pavements it would sound the death knell for their cozy inbred plutocracy.
Another member of this, so-called, elite who desired the same outcome was the Duke of Bedford. Bedford was also known as the Marquess of Tavistock and the grateful Tavistock Institute had adopted his name after he had kindly donated a building to them. An act he initiated for purely philanthropic purposes I am sure!