“I'll polish it off myself.”

— Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon

On the fate of a gift of a nebuchadnezzar of champagne (20 bottles' worth) even if her family didn't come for the holidays.
Quoted by Graham Taylor in Elizabeth: The Woman and the Queen (2002)

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