Word: coalport
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mauve-and-gold plate propped up in the Bois de Boulogne drawing room of the Duchess of Windsor, 76, was the first of a run of 1,000 Coalport china plates commemorating her late husband. Inscribed on its back is an elegiac quotation from Sir Winston Churchill: "In this prince there were discerned qualities of courage, of simplicity, of sympathy, and, above all, of sincerity; qualities rare and precious which might have made his reign glorious in the annals of this ancient monarchy...
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