Do Let's Have Another Drink!: The Dry Wit and Fizzy Life of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

A journalist asked her, “Is it true you crossed the ocean on the famous Titanic?”

To which Gladys replied, deadpan, “Part way.”

She refused to feel ashamed over her love for food. She stated quite firmly that one of her favourite smells was “the delicious smell of toasting bread” and declared later, “In times of distress, you must have chocolates!”

Either Elizabeth or Wallis is usually cast as the villain who shamelessly manipulated a weak-willed man, one who apparently would never have dreamed of hurting anybody’s feelings until his scheming wife forced him to do so. The evidence supports neither scenario.