Adversity Quote by Sally Bedell Smith

“Asked to explain how he became a war hero he (Kennedy) responded, "It was involuntary. They think my boat.” quote by Sally Bedell Smith — Download Open image

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

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“As the Supreme Governor of the Church of England, the monarch is the defender of the faith—the official religion of the country, established by law and respected by sentiment. Yet when the Queen travels to Scotland, she becomes a member of the Church of Scotland, which governs itself and tolerates no supervision by the state. She doesn’t abandon the Anglican…

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“Charles is difficult to pigeonhole politically. Tony Blair wrote that he considered him a “curious mixture of the traditional and the radical (at one level he was quite New Labour, at another definitely not) and of the princely and insecure.” He is certainly conservative in his old-fashioned dress and manners, his advocacy of traditional education in the arts and humanities,…

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

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“Philip revealed his carefully cloaked emotions when he wrote to his mother-in-law, "Cherish Lilibet? I wonder if that word is enough to express what is in me." He declared that his new wife was "the only 'thing' in this world which is absolutely real to me, and my ambition is to weld the two of us into a new combined…

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

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

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

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

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

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