“Whilst playing cards,
Elizabeth: How are you getting on? You don't look very happy.
Lord Salisbury: Oh, Ma'am, I've been left with a horrible queen.
Elizabeth: I don't think that's a very good of way of putting it, do you?”

—  Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon

As quoted by Lord Home of the Hirsel in The Queen Mother Remembered (2002), BBC Books

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