 Enoch Powell claimed that it was wrong of Macmillan to seek to monopolise the advice given to the Queen in this way.In fact, this was done at the Palace's request, so that the Queen was not being seen to be involved in politics as had happened in January 1957, and had been decided as far back as June when it had looked as though the government might fall over the Profumo scandal.Ben Pimlott later described this as the "biggest political misjudgement of her reign".