Duke and Duchess of Windsor as friends, he once worshipped the Queen Mother (‘darling Elizabeth, I could die for her’), and he knew leading politicians and prime ministers, including Churchill and Eden (an Oxford friend) – and had something to say about all of them.His one-liners about his friends and acquaintances, peppered through his diaries, are by turns crushing and amusing. ‘The Prince of Wales smiled his dentist smile,’ he writes on 6 May 1935.
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