The King and Queen are famous today for the role during World War II only because their advice was rejected by a majority of British politicians. The fact is that in the late 1930s George VI and his wife were among the main cheerleaders in favour of Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasing Hitler.
This one bugs me the most. Most of England approved of Chamberlain's policy. Chamberlain returned to cheering crowds after he met with hitler. Most politicians approved of Chamberlain's policy. He could not have been their Prime Minister without their support.
But even if this attack was valid, think about what she is accused of? Not knowing how to respond to hitler. I guess that makes her like every other national leader at the time. (with the exception of Churchill, who was hostile to hitler even before he became the PM.) France didn't take hitler seriously until they were doomed. Chamberlain thought hitler could be dealt with by a treaty. So did Stalin. Even that evil Italian dictator(mental block) was tricked by hitler.
This amused me. The author seems to think "obvious sincerity" is some sort of sympathetic description of Hitler's book. I, on the other hand, think that if you take the phrase literally, it is not only accurate, but a proper foreboding: Hitler's writings were "obviously sincere", and as such needed immediate attention. Had the Queen Mother described him as "harmlessly deluded", she would have been inaccurate, and this author would have ripped her for that, too.