In 1940, Nazi Deputy Rudolph Hess received a highly irregular intelligence feed most bizarrely not from Heinrich Himmler. Superficially it was a back-channel diplomatic communication from the Duke of Hamilton and Brandon inviting Hess to a clandestine meeting at Aleister Crowley's residence on Loch Ness. It also included horoscopes suggesting a pro-German coup in Britain led by the Duke and 'the Beast'. The urgency was thus; a brokered peace settlement before Rommel could launch the D-Day landings on the South Coast.