↑ Nguyên văn là: "a walking encyclopedia. All through her life she stored up knowledge on all sorts of subjects, and she had the great gift of being able to make it all interesting when she taught it to me. She was completely methodical; we had time-tables for each subject, and I had to do preparation, and so forth. She taught me to enjoy working hard, and to be thorough. She was outspoken and open-minded to a degree quite unusual in members of the Royal Family. And she was also entirely free from prejudice about politics or colour and things of that kind."
↑ Nguyên văn là: "not made to carry passengers, and we perched securely attached on a little stool holding on to the flyer's back"
↑ Nguyên văn là: "who few greatly respect or trust".
↑ Nguyên văn là: "became a central matriarchal figure in the lives of Europe's surviving royalty".
↑ Nguyên văn là: "I liked my grandmother very much and she was always helpful. She was very good with children... she took the practical approach to them. She treated them in the right way—the right combination of the rational and the emotional."
↑ Nguyên văn là: "My mother was very quick on the uptake, very talkative, very aggressive and argumentative. With her marvellous brain she sharpened people's wits."
↑ Nguyên văn là: "formidable, but never intimidating... a supremely honest woman, full of commonsense and modesty".
↑ Nguyên văn là: "What will live in history is the good work done by the individual & that has nothing to do with rank or title... I never thought I would be known only as your mother. You're so well known now and no one knows about me, and I don't want them to."
