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

— Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon

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

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Queen consort of King George VI, mother of Queen Elizabeth … 1900–2002

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