The Monarchy's German Connections During the First First Phase of the War

From the start of the war, i was expecting to really find that this was like a major issue for the public. It's only when we get to 19 17 and the russian revolution that suddenly there is a public debate about the monarchies german links. That does start to appear as something that people are now getting concerned about. And that's linked to war weariness, to a sense of suspicion of spiesnd of conspiracy theories. The idea that maybe there's germans within who are weakening the british war effort. So it's actually something, it's aelat a late war phenomenon.