Thursday 18 June 2020

And you say I can't give a blessing because the Archbishop of Liverpool is present?

'You can't expect me  to like all the propaganda about "getting England back for the Faith"? How could I? At Westminster they always go on about their feelings being hurt, but I said to one of them (over the Hungarians at the Albert Hall) don't you suppose I've  got any feelings to hurt? Here I am, in my country, head of my country's church, and you say I can't give a blessing because the Archbishop of Liverpool is present? They saw the point.

J. Pope-Hennessy, The Quest for Queen Mary, ed. H. Vickers (2018), 226

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