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Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon
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“Silly ass. The land would be much more valuable today.”
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (1930–2002) first seen 1761 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On being told that George III had given the Crown lands to Parliament in 1761 in return for a fixed allowance. As quoted in Andrew Duncan The Reality of Monarchy (William Heinemann, 1970), p. 181
“We had to put a stop to it. Every tart in London was getting in.”
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (1930–2002) first seen 1958 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the end in 1958 of the presentation of Debutantes at court, as cited by Liz Hoggard in "High Society: Whatever happened to the last of the debs?", The Independent on Sunday (24 September 2006)
“Which one? My sister, my mother or my husband?”
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (1930–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From Anne de Courcy Snowdon: The Biography (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008), as cited in "Lord Snowdon, his women, and his love child", The Telegraph (31 May 2008)
“You have done more to bring shame on the family than could ever have been imagined.”
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (1930–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Not once have you hung your head in embarrassment even for a minute after those disgraceful photographs. Clearly you have never considered the damage you are causing us all. How dare you discredit us like this and how dare you send me those flowers?”
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (1930–2002) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to the then Duchess of York (now Sarah Ferguson, c. 1995), as cited in Naomi Bartram "Here’s why Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson split", Cosmopolitan (12 October 2018)