The Quest for Queen Mary Quotes

“Queen Mary was the first Dowager Queen to attend a Coronation – that of George VI and Queen Elizabeth.”
― James Pope-Hennessy, The Quest for Queen Mary

“Did you never keep a diary yourself, Sir?’ ‘Oh I tried it once, but God I wrote such bloody rubbish I gave it up.”
― James Pope-Hennessy, The Quest for Queen Mary

“I had forgotten the number one truth I had discovered last year in Stockholm, and which should be axiomatic for anyone having to interview or get tangled up with royal persons: it is courtiers who make royalty frightened and frightening; taken neat like whiskey they are perfectly all right. This does not mean that they are as others, but you can get on to plain terms with the species, like an ornithologist making friends with some rare wild duck.”
― James Pope-Hennessy, The Quest for Queen Mary

“I simply cannot understand unpunctuality. Why should anybody be late? I know exactly how long it takes me to dress.”
― James Pope-Hennessy, The Quest for Queen Mary