Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding.
Perhaps you will find me more agreeable.
When Georges Clemenceau said "I don't like your Prime Minister" at the Versailles Peace Talks of 1919
Lately I have been living in a world which I no more understand & which has become very lonely; Ileana married, Sitta gone, Nicky banished, but I struggle on. I look beaten but am I really beaten? I was always a good fighter, you remember. But fight against one's own flesh & blood?
In a letter to her cousin George V of the United Kingdomin the 1930s. "Ileana" refers to her youngest daughter, "Sitta" to her daughter in law (Princess Helen of Greece) and "Nicky" to her son Prince Nicholas of Romania.
He kicks against tradition and restrictions without realising that tradition made him, is his raison d'etre.
On Edward, Prince of the Wales, the future King Edward VIII.
One is always afraid of upsetting their conventionalities.
Said during a visit to her cousin, George V and his wife Queen Mary.
