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I'll polish it off myself.

— Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon

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Quoted by Graham Taylor in Elizabeth: The Woman and the Queen (2002)

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Tinkety tonk old fruit, and down with the Nazis.

Dear Edwina, she always liked to make a splash.

Never trust them, never trust them. They can't be trusted.

I am glad we have been bombed. Now we can look the East End in the eye.

The children won't go without me. I won't leave the King. And the King will never leave.

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