The children will not leave unless I do. I shall not leave unless their father does, and the King will not leave the country in any circumstances whatever.

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I'm glad we've been bombed. It makes me feel I can look the East End in the face.

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How small an selfish is sorrow. But it bangs one about until one is senseless. (letter to Edith Sitwell, shortly after the death of George VI).

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These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.

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