Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother

About Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother

“The children won't go without me. I won't leave the King. And the King will never leave.”
— In a public declaration in the early years of World War II. Sourced from the British Royal Family History website.
“Never trust them, never trust them. They can't be trusted.”
— On the Germans, to Woodrow Wyatt (16 November 1991), as quoted in The Journals of Woodrow Wyatt: Volume Two (2000) ed. Sarah Curtis, p. 608
“He is the only man, since my dear husband died, to have had the effrontery to kiss me on the lips.””
— The Queen Mother said about President Jimmy Carter, as reported in the British newspapers.
“Dear Edwina, she always liked to make a splash.”
— On hearing that Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma had been buried at sea, as quoted in The Straits Times [Singapore] (7 August 2000)
“I wouldn't if I were you, Noël; they count them before they put them out.”
— Murmured to Sir Noël Coward (who was gay) at a gala. While she mounted a staircase lined with Guards, she noticed Coward's eyes flicker momentarily over the soldiers; as quoted by Thomas Blaikie in You look awfully like the Queen: Wit and Wisdom from the House of Windsor (2002)

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