“We'd have to go self-service.”

—  Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon

After a Tory minister advised her not to employ homosexuals.
[Summerskill, Ben, Upstairs, downstairs, in my lady's chamber, The Observer, 10 November 2002, http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2002/nov/10/monarchy.bensummerskill]

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

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