Going Behind my Back from The Crown

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My version

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ELIZABETH: Churchill would have had the character to do it face to face. Come to think of it, so would Anthony Eden. And Harold Macmillan. Each of them would have had the courage to express their anger to me directly. None of them would ever have resorted to going behind my back like that. I have it on authority you tipped off journalists that I was letting the side down by not going to Aberfan.

WILSON: Never.

ELIZABETH: It wasn’t you?

WILSON: No, ma’am. But… perhaps one or two of my colleagues, concerned at the anger being directed at the government…

ELIZABETH: Broke ranks? Took matters into their own hands?

WILSON: It’s possible.

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