the Queen Mother Elizabeth Quotes

• 'We'd have to go self-service.'
• 'Whatever would American tourists think?'
• 'Is it just me or are pensioners getting younger these days?'
• 'Is that wise, darling? Remember you have to reign all afternoon.'
• 'I hadn't realised I enjoyed that reputation. But as I do, perhaps you could make it a large one.'
• 'The chopper has changed my life as conclusively as it did Anne Boleyn's.'
• 'Oh, I understand that perfectly. That's how we feel in Scotland too, but the English won't allow it.'
• Canadian veteran: Are you Scotch or English? Elizabeth: I'm Canadian!
• 'I wouldn't if I were you, Noel; they count them before they put them out.'
• 'When one of you young queens has finished, can you bring this old queen a drink?'
• 'Not very romantic.'
• 'Who are you supposed to be, dear? Are you Daddy or the Mad Hatter?'
• 'I'll polish it off myself.'
• Whilst playing cards,
• 'Was this yours? Oh, could you take it?'
• 'But I love communists!'
• 'The princesses could not possibly leave without me; I wouldn't leave the King, and the King will never leave under any circumstances.'
• 'I am almost glad we have been bombed. Now I feel I can look the East End in the face.'
• 'The only other man who has ever done that to me was my husband.'
• 'We loved him.'
• 'Never trust them, never trust them. They can't be trusted.'
• If [Winston] Churchill is the man in Europe I must fear most, then surely she is the woman I have most to fear of in Europe.
• [She should be] Hung, drawn and...quartered...hung in diamonds, drawn in a coach, and...quartered in the best house in the land.

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