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> [“Why did she want to stay in England? Because the history she was interested in had happened here, and buried deep beneath her analytical mind was a tumbled heap of Englishness in all its glory, or kings and queens, of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-aston/why-did-she-want-to-stay-in-england-because-the-history-she-was/)

[Elizabeth Aston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-aston/)

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