The Queen's Secret Quotes

“daughter of the Earl of Strathmore and Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck, your mother”
― Karen Harper, The Queen's Secret: A Novel of England's World War II Queen

“You are Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon,”
― Karen Harper, The Queen's Secret: A Novel of England's World War II Queen

“We love you, our angel, and always will,” Papa said and patted me on the back. I knew enough of my Bible to realize why I had overheard, more than once, some of our Bowes Lyon relations refer to David and me as “the Benjamins.” After all, Benjamin was the dearly beloved and youngest of his father’s and Rachel’s children and had many older half brothers.”
― Karen Harper, The Queen's Secret: A Novel of England's World War II Queen

“So I am of Father’s blood, but not yours?” “You are of his blood and of my heart, and what could matter more than that?”
― Karen Harper, The Queen's Secret: A Novel of England's World War II Queen

“Winston would now have to work with the new president, a man named Harry Truman whom we had met briefly,”
― Karen Harper, The Queen's Secret: A Novel of England's World War II Queen

“How was it that some commanders would have been drummed out of service and court-martialed for two military disasters, but Louis “Dickie” Mountbatten had landed on his feet again after the losses at Dieppe?”
― Karen Harper, The Queen's Secret: A Novel of England's World War II Queen

“Was there some fault in English fathers and mothers of the rich and famous?”
― Karen Harper, The Queen's Secret: A Novel of England's World War II Queen

“pedant.”
― Karen Harper, The Queen's Secret: A Novel of England's World War II Queen