The feats of our brave troops are wonderful, God gave them success. - May He continue to help them to peace with honour, & the victory over Juda & Antichrist in British garb.

Letter to Margarethe Landgraffin von Hessen (20 April 1941), quoted in John C. G. Röhl, Wilhelm II: Into the Abyss of War and Exile 1900-1941 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), p. 1262.