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Elizabeth Longford

  • “People felt they needed a [Princess] Diana to help them through difficult times. If Diana had not existed they would have had to invent her.”

  • “Their shiny grey limousines lay around Hyde Park Corner like basking sharks.”

Elizabeth Longford, English writer

(1906 - 2002)

Full name: Elizabeth Harman Pakenham, Countess of Longford, CBE.