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...celebrities whom Mrs. Wilson did not warm to were Queen Marie of Rumania, who referred to her "passionate" daughter Ileana as "my love child," and Britain's Margot Asquith, who struck "matches as I have seen certain men do, on their own anatomy." > Even before Woodrow Wilson broke with Secretary of State Lansing and Colonel House, Mrs. Wilson was convinced that both were disloyal. When she called House a "jellyfish" for making concessions at the Peace Conference during Wilson's absence, Woodrow Wilson answered: "Well, God made jellyfish, so, as Shakespeare said about a man, therefore...
...people whose story they enclose-the Prince Consort (Anton Walbrook) and Wellington, dozing in his chair. Peel, Palmerston, Gladstone, Asquith, Salisbury and a dozen others-seem as real as the sombre, graceful rooms, the velvet lawns and old streets that surround them. Most real of all is the Queen herself (Anna Neagle), waltzing at a palace ball, reviewing troops on a white horse, rebuking Gladstone for not preventing the massacre of Gordon's army at Khartoum, telling an old servant how she waved to a crowd of costermongers at her Jubilee...
...very strong action if I had been Prime Minister. The airplanes which attacked British ships came from the Italian front in the Balearic Islands. I would first of all have seen these air-dromes destroyed until they stopped sending bombing planes against our ships. If Gladstone, Campbell-Bannerman, or Asquith had behaved as the Prime Minister has done they would have been howled down and execrated," scorned the white-haired old Liberal...
Meanwhile Oxford only picked up as points. The Britishers seemed to a displaying a less serious altitude on to whole. The flippancy of their cleanup man. The Right Bon. Earl of Asquith, and the general inability of their number three, identified as John Irwins, a former Princetonian, proved particularly costly...
...adopted son, Publisher Peter Llewellyn Davies, inspiration for Peter Pan, he left ?6,000 and half the residuary estate. The other half of the residuary estate, in addition to ?30,000 and the royalties from all his works except Peter Pan, he left to Lady Cynthia Asquith, his secretary and longtime friend...