King George VI broke with protocol by publicly endorsing the Munich Agreement in 1938, and by inviting Neville Chamberlain to appear on the balcony at Buckingham Palace. Chamberlain's "appeasement" policy towards Hitler was the subject of some opposition in the House of Commons, which led historian John Grigg to describe the King's behavior in associating himself so prominently with a politician as "the most unconstitutional act by a British sovereign in the present century".

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