When Lord Kitchner was in Egypt preparing to try to save Gordon at Khartoum (he failed, but thats another story) he contracted a rare and seemingly untreatable skin condition that drove him to the brink of madness and beyond.

As he was a military hero, this was kept a secret. Upon his return to England, the madness deepned and he became convinced that the monarchy must be overthrown and a military dictatorship set up to run the empire.

His every moove was monitored and loyal subjects were recruited to be part of his cabal as the scientists of the day searched franticly for a cure.

At last one was found and Lord Kitchner's sanity restored.

Of course the entire case was surrounded by secrecy and it is only with the recent release of certain documents by MI-5 that any light has been shed of the affair.

Prior to this, the only hint of the problem was to be found on the code name given the file by MI-5 and that only appeared as a nonsense phrase used with small children.

It was known as the "Itchy Kitchy Coup."

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