“Silly ass. The land would be much more valuable today.”

—  Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon

On being told that George III had given the Crown lands to Parliament in 1761 in return for a fixed allowance. As quoted in Andrew Duncan, The Reality of Monarchy, p. 181

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