“Really! This might be Roumania!”

— Mary of Teck

Of the Abdication Crisis, 1936.
James Pope-Hennessy, Life of Queen Mary (1959), ch.7., ii.

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Queen consort of the United Kingdom Empress of India 1867–1953

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