January 27, 2025

[On hearing Lady Mountbatten’s anti-monarchical views] How easy it seems for a semi-royal millionnairess, who has exhausted all the pleasures of money and position, to turn almost Communist!

Henry (“Chips”) Channon, (1897-1958), American-born British Conservative MP, Diary, 19 September 1944, Jay p.81

Does the gospel lesson (Matthew 19:24), that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get to heaven—apply to the rich man’s children? Must we believe they are immune to the claims of social conscience?

The operative phrase is “almost Communist”. Talk’s cheap! I would rather know how she treated her servants. And Channon, his!