Kitty Kelley > Quotes

“Instinctively she knew that talking, talking, talking kept people from probing, probing, probing. The more she seemed to reveal about herself, the more she could hide, and still appear to be open and forthcoming.”
― Kitty Kelley, Oprah

“Oprah had no sympathy for welfare recipients and frequently berated them. 'I was a welfare daughter, just like you….How did you let yourselves become welfare mothers? Why did you choose this? I didn’t.”
― Kitty Kelley, Oprah

“Finally, Lord Stamfordham found it and secured his place in history by proposing the name of Windsor. That one word summoned up what the King was looking for—a glorious image that resonated with history, stretching back to William the Conqueror.”
― Kitty Kelley, The Royals

“frustrated agents at MCA had almost”
― Kitty Kelley, Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorized Biography

“spring From this”
― Kitty Kelley, The Royals

“Reagan suggested ending the nightclub act by reciting a poem”
― Kitty Kelley, Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorized Biography

“told of Henry’s reputed sexual endowments, Burton”
― Kitty Kelley, Elizabeth Taylor: The Last Star

“She and the King became incensed by the Windsors’ public admiration of Hitler. In April 1941, the Duke was reported as saying, “It would be very ill-advised of America to enter the war against Germany as Europe was finished anyway.” The Duchess agreed. “If the U.S. entered the war, this country would go to history as the greatest sucker of all times.” Then the Duke told the editor of the U.S. magazine Liberty, “… it would be a tragic thing for the world if Hitler was overthrown.” The”
― Kitty Kelley, The Royals

“East of Eden,”
― Kitty Kelley, Oprah

“Oprah had come a long way from the days when she, too, loved to shock her audiences. But she no longer wanted to be seen as a vulgarian, hosting shows for nudists and shouting 'penis, penis, penis.”
― Kitty Kelley, Oprah

“The dynasty was created in 1917 to conceal the German roots of the King and Queen, and the deception enabled the monarchy to be perceived as British by subjects who despised Germany. Until then, many English kings never spoke the King’s English. They spoke only German because for almost two hundred years, from 1714 until this century, a long line of Germans ruled the British empire. By 1915 England finally had a king, George V*, who could speak English without a German accent. Although he was a German from the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha line that had ruled England for eighty years, he considered himself to be indisputably British.”
― Kitty Kelley, The Royals