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Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon

Children won't never

1940s
England, United Kingdom

Viscount Hailsham wrote to Prime Minister Winston Churchill to advise the evacuation of the princesses to the greater safety of Canada, to which their mother famously replied, "The children won't go without me. I won't leave without the King. And the King will never leave."


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