“After I am dead, the boy will ruin himself in twelve months.”

— George V of the United Kingdom

Statement to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, referring to his son, Edward, Prince of Wales
Quoted in Keith Middlemas and John Barnes, Baldwin (1969) ch.34

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