Queen Victoria’s spy network
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Victoria's Love of Spy Network Changed the Course of the First World War
If she had lived a little bit longer, do you think her kind of love of espinage might have altered the course of the first world war? That is a good question, and it's one who has never, never been asked before. So i'm going to say no. Her intelligence network, if she'd been around in 19 ten, 11, 12, wasn't as good as it was in in the 18 sixties. This this was dwindling. The fact that that vickie had been, had been frozen out er. She loved anti russian stories. If you've got good russophobia, victoria is all over it.
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