Sally Bedell Smith

“Asked to explain how he became a war hero he (Kennedy) responded, "It was involuntary. They think my boat.”

— Sally Bedell Smith

“Jack Kennedy brought an "intense concentration" and a "gently teasing humor" to the dinner table, along with what Katherine Graham called his…

— Sally Bedell Smith

“Charles and their advisers and staff dealt with Diana’s bewildering and often infuriating behavior by placating her, trying to distract her, and…

— Sally Bedell Smith

“The Queen drilled in her own mother's maxim that "if you find something or somebody a bore, the fault lies in you.”

— Sally Bedell Smith

“Thatcher once said that if she were a visitor from Mars required to create a constitutional system, "I would set up ...…

— Sally Bedell Smith

“After American titan and presidential father Joseph P. Kennedy suffered a stroke that impacted one side of his body, guests pretended not…

— Sally Bedell Smith

“Like the princess, Philip didn't believe in public displays of affection, which made it easy to mask his feelings. But he revealed…

— Sally Bedell Smith

“Your Majesty, I'm afraid everything that could possibly go wrong is going wrong," said Major Sir Michael Parker, an impresario for royal…

— Sally Bedell Smith

“Philip revealed his carefully cloaked emotions when he wrote to his mother-in-law, "Cherish Lilibet? I wonder if that word is enough to…

— Sally Bedell Smith

“Charles is difficult to pigeonhole politically. Tony Blair wrote that he considered him a “curious mixture of the traditional and the radical…

— Sally Bedell Smith

“She hit a new low in mid-July when she took up with Dodi Fayed, the son of Egyptian tycoon Mohamed Fayed, who…

— Sally Bedell Smith

“As the Supreme Governor of the Church of England, the monarch is the defender of the faith—the official religion of the country,…

— Sally Bedell Smith