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My dear old friend King George V told me he would never have died but for that vile doctor, Lord Dawson of Penn.
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Quoted by Mark Bonham Carter in his Introduction to the 1962 edition of The Autobiography of Margot Asquith (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1962) p. xxxv.

 

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