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“Near Victoria, for example, you can find the Queen Mother Sports Centre. Whatever the qualities that particular royal might have had, exuberant attraction to physical sports was not one of them.”
― … And What Do You Do?: What The Royal Family Don't Want You To Know
― … And What Do You Do?: What The Royal Family Don't Want You To Know
“Cavendish jolts up, riding knee-to-knee. ‘His reliquary!’ George is upset, astonished. ‘To part with it like this! It is a piece of the true Cross!’ ‘We'll get him another. I know a man in Pisa makes them ten for five florins and a round dozen for cash up front. And you get a certificate with St Peter's thumbprint, to say they're genuine.”
― Wolf Hall
― Wolf Hall
“When the King, Edward III, complained about the lack of street sweepers in the capital, he was told they had all died.”
― … And What Do You Do?: What The Royal Family Don't Want You To Know
― … And What Do You Do?: What The Royal Family Don't Want You To Know
“And she shared the philosophy Jackie expressed when a friend of hers warned that by marrying Ari she would fall off her pedestal. “It’s better,” Jackie replied, “than freezing there.”
― The Day Diana Died
― The Day Diana Died
“Any variation from unbending rigidity may open the door to reform.”
― … And What Do You Do?: What The Royal Family Don't Want You To Know
― … And What Do You Do?: What The Royal Family Don't Want You To Know
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