Sally Bedell Smith
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“Thatcher once said that if she were a visitor from Mars required to create a constitutional system, "I would set up ... a hereditary monarchy, wonderfully trained, in duty and in leadership which understands example, which is always there, which is above politics, for which the whole nation has an affection and which is a symbol of patriotism.”
― Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch
― Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch
“Like the princess, Philip didn't believe in public displays of affection, which made it easy to mask his feelings. But he revealed them privately in a touching letter to Queen Elizabeth in which he wondered if he deserved "all the good things which have happened to me," especially "to have fallen in love completely and unreservedly.”
― Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch
― Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch
“After American titan and presidential father Joseph P. Kennedy suffered a stroke that impacted one side of his body, guests pretended not to notice the impact. Jackie Kennedy, however, held the impacted hand and kissed the affected side of his face, facing his disability and giving him the courage to do so.”
― Grace and Power: The Private World of the Kennedy White House
― Grace and Power: The Private World of the Kennedy White House
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