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“Five years with the dowager - Good God, she ought to be given a title in her own right as a penance for such as that. No one had done more for England.” quote by Julia Quinn — Download Open image

““Five years with the dowager - Good God, she ought to be given a title in her own right as a penance for such as that. No one had done more for England.””

Julia Quinn

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