I think that the 'Hey, looks like my mother's talking to me' tone of Beatrix is just the one things that doesn't make this tape half as shocking as some people thought it would be. Maybe it's not nice to say that the devil has gotten into someone, but well... what do we know about it? Maybe Beatrix's tone was a bit haughty, but I think that was to be expected. The queen tends to do her own way and there's not much we or Margarite can change about that. So if she finds that she has to let others investigate Edwin, she lets others invetigate Edwin. I'm really not interested what she has to say about that in private to her niece, but well: Edwin thought something else and here we are, listening to businesses which don't concern us. And since we're reading these transcriptions, I think we can safely say that the queen maybe came across as a snob or haughty, but it could have been much worse...
Having an image of the queen in my head (I mean, I've followed her for quite some years know) I have to say that she reacted just the way I expected her to react. So nothing shocking, imo.
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