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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most awful thing that has ever happened to me. I'm completely unfitted to be King. I've had no education for it." The friend answered, "Well, your father said that to my father, and I'm going to give you the same answer he got. You've been trained in the Royal Navy as an officer, and there's no finer training." In the event, George won universal praise as a good and very conscientious King...
Unlike her predecessors, the present Queen has been trained as head of state from the beginning. It is significant to note the difference in the education she got and that Princess Margaret got, and the discipline that the Queen has been under and Princess Margaret has not. I don't say Margaret would ever have made such a good Queen. But she could have been brought up very differently. Elizabeth, thank God, married the right man, himself brought up in the navy, and has an eldest son who is also a professional naval officer...
...travel around any country not as the Prince of Wales, not with a guard and a band, not with a Foreign Office speech to read, but as the president of the international council of the U.W.C. If he calls on the President of the country, he's got something to talk to him about, not just bromide. He'll be able to get things done...
Firstly, her family has got to be thought about. Because if the girl is going to be the Queen of England, you can't altogether push her family aside. It's got to be a family that fits. It hasn't got to be aristocratic, it's got to be nice-that's all. The girl doesn't have to have a title. She can be Miss Something-or-Other, provided she's suitable as a wife and Queen...
...suitable American well enough, long enough, to be able to say yes? Now let's take Grace Kelly, who would be, if she were the right age, admirable as Queen of England. She's beautiful, she's intelligent, she's dignified. She's got every quality. I'm mad about her, and she's the most marvelous professional princess I've ever met. When could Charles have met such an American and seen her long enough to consider marriage? A coup de foudre-this falling in love at first sight...