On this subject, researcher Gregory Tillett wrote:
On November 1st, 1925 Mrs Besant delivered a lecture in London on “The Coming of the World Teacher”. Shortly after this lecture, her certainty about the Coming and all the recent events received a serious and permanent shock which affected her psychological and physical health.
Krishnamurti rejected all the revelations about Initiates and Apostles, the World Religion and World University and such things, but was unwilling to tell Mrs Besant himself. But he was determined that she must be told. So he sent Professor Marcault, an official of the World University, to break the news whilst he, Krishnamurti, remained in the car outside Mrs Besant’s London residence.
Emile Marcault, MA, LLB, was Professor and Psychology and French Literature at the University of Claremont (1909-1917), the University of Grenoble, and the University of Pisa (1917-1924); and General Secretary of the Theosophical Society in France (1934-1945).
Marcault told Mrs Besant as simply as he could, and departed, leaving her deathly pale and severely shocked. For some time afterwards she was physically ill, and thereafter showed signs of rapid aging, loss of memory and a tendency to focus on the past. She was torn between a series of opposed loyalties and demands and remained in a state of uncertainty and conflict for the rest of her life.
On November 3rd, Krishnamurti, Mrs Besant, Wedgwood and Lady Emily departed for India, and in Rome were joined by the Arundales.
[Krishnamurti's brother was very ill.]
Krishnamurti was told by the Mahachohan (via Arundale) that his brother, Nityananda, would die unless he, Krishnamurti, accepted the revelations given through Arundale and confirmed the occult status of the Apostles and Initiates. Krishnamurti refused.
As the party entered the Suez Canal on November 13th, a cable was received telling of Nityananda’s death. Mrs Besant broke the news to Krishnamurti, and it had a shattering effect on him.
Shiva Rao, who shared a cabin with Krishnamurti, wrote to Mary Lutyens that Nityananda’s death had broken Krishnamurti completely, changed his entire philosophy of life, and destroyed his implicit faith in the plans outlined by Leadbeater and Mrs Besant.
The effect of the continuing controversy, uncertainty and disappointment on Mrs Besant was considerable.
According to one of her associates at the time, E.L. Gardner, Mrs Besant intended to make a statement of her realization that she had been misled about the Coming, and told Gardner of this when he had an interview with her in 1930.
Garner wrote:
« Mrs Besant broke down before making the declaration she intended and died. The shock of finding her fears (a two year build up) all confirmed, killed her. »
(From a letter from Gardner to Boris de Zirkoff, April 9, 1965, seen in the archives of Point Loma Publications, San Diego.)
Although Gardener would not commit the full details to writing, it seemed that Mrs Besant had decided that Leadbeater had merely been seeing the creations of his own mind; she was shattered to think that she had gone along with him, and horrified at the effect of her support.
(From a letter from Gardner to Boris de Zirkoff, May 22, 1965, seen in the archives of Point Loma Publications, San Diego.)
(https://cwleadbeater.wordpress.com/2016/06/08/did-annie-besant-regret/)
OBSERVATION
It may be that Annie Besant did eventually repent, but that doesn't absolve her of all the harm she caused, because many people warned her that Leadbeater was a fraud, and it is baffling that even until the end of her life she continued to defend him, considering that "Leadbeater had simply been seeing creations of his own mind," when in reality all the facts demonstrate that this individual was an immense charlatan who intentionally manipulated her to carry out all his misdeeds.
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