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George V Quotes

Today 23 years ago dear Grandmama died. I wonder what she would have thought of a Labour Government.

1924 Of Queen Victoria. Diary entry, 22 Jan, on having invited Ramsay Macdonald to form the first Labour administration.

No more coals to Newcastle, no more Hoares to Paris.

In conversation with Anthony Eden, 23 December 1935, following Samuel Hoare's resignation as Foreign Secretary on 18 December 1935, in Earl of Avon 'Facing the Dictators' (1962) pt. 2, ch. 1

Golf always makes me so damned angry.

Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).