Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon citáty

Její Veličenstvo královna Alžběta, královna matka, rodným jménem Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon , byla jako manželka Jiřího VI. královnou Spojeného království a britských dominií od roku 1936 do jeho smrti v roce 1952. Po jeho smrti byla známa jako královna Alžběta, královna matka, aby nedošlo k záměně s její dcerou Alžbětou II. Před korunovací svého manžela byla známa jako vévodkyně z Yorku, byla poslední irskou královnou a indickou císařovnou. Wikipedia  

✵ 4. srpen 1900 – 30. březen 2002
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Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon: 14   citátů 1   lajk

Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon citáty a výroky

„Byl tak mladý na to, aby zemřel a stával se v roli krále tak moudrým. A byl rovněž tak laskavý…“

o Jiřím VI.
Zdroj: [Brandreth, Gyles, 2007, Charles a Camilla, portrét jedné lásky, Albatros, 1., 129, 978-80-00-02067-9]

Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon: Citáty anglicky

“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.

“I'll polish it off myself.”

On the fate of a gift of a nebuchadnezzar of champagne (20 bottles' worth) even if her family didn't come for the holidays.
Quoted by Graham Taylor in Elizabeth: The Woman and the Queen (2002)

“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) by Woodrow Wyatt, p. 608

“I wouldn't if I were you, Noël; they count them before they put them out.”

Murmured to the gay writer Sir Noël Coward 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)

“We'd have to go self-service.”

After a Tory minister advised her not to employ homosexuals.
[Summerskill, Ben, Upstairs, downstairs, in my lady's chamber, The Observer, 10 November 2002, http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2002/nov/10/monarchy.bensummerskill]

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

After the Luftwaffe bombed the Buckingham Palace whilst the King and Queen were in residence on 13 September 1940.

[Davies, Caroline, How the Luftwaffe bombed the palace, in the Queen Mother's own words, The Guardian, 13 September 2009, https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/sep/13/queen-mother-biography-shawcross-luftwaffe]

“Dear Edwina, she always liked to make a splash.”

On hearing that Edwina Mountbatten had been buried at sea, as quoted in The Straits Times [Singapore] (7 August 2000)

“Was this yours? Oh, could you take it?”

On returning a toilet roll to a demonstrator who had thrown it at her, as quoted by Sir Peter Ustinov in The Queen Mother Remembered (2002), BBC Books

“But I love communists!”

On being warned that a functionary to whom she was about to be introduced was a communist, as quoted by the Duchess of Grafton in The Queen Mother Remembered (2002), BBC Books

“That's mine!”

Said to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr George Carey, when she realised he had taken her glass of wine just as she prepared to propose a toast during a lunch to celebrate her 100th birthday.

Vickers

Hugo

Elizabeth, The Queen Mother

Arrow Books/Random House

2006

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978-0-09-947662-7

“Since I have landed in Quebec, I think we can say that I am Canadian.”

Answering two Boer War veterans of Scottish heritage in Quebec who had asked the Queen if she was Scots or English.

[Elizabeth II, Elizabeth II, 2002, Speech by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Ceremonial and Canadian Symbols Promotion > The Canadian Monarchy, Vancouver, Ottawa, Queen's Printer for Canada, http://www.pch.gc.ca/queen/, 7 November 2007, harv]

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