If The Queen Mother sympathised at that time, she certainly changed her attitude come the war, refusing to go to Canada for safety and touring bomb sites, trying in the only way royalty know, to kept spirits up .,,. Indeed so. I had personal experience of this, as she & her husband, George VI, came to inspect the damage at my N London school, Garden Suburb, in 1940 when it was bombed out -- I experienced every child's dream of a few weeks with no school as a result! I have told here before the story of the big girl [ie about 12 when I was 8] who ran up behind the king & slapped him hard between the shoulders, tearfully explaining, when asked not-too-gently by the headmaster & the Mayor of Hendon what-the-hell she thought she was about, that "I only wanted to be able to tell people I'd touched the King!" That's how much security royalty needed in those days! Another thing I recall is a woman just behind me calling out "Good luck" as they walked by, and the king unhesitatingly turning towards her and saying "Thank you" most politely.
I am not a royalist exactly -- more an if-it-ain't-broke-don't-fix-it-ist. But they had, & have, their virtues you know.