During the first air-raid a message was sent to the Duchess [of Beaufort] that the Queen was in the reinforced shelter and wished her to come down. 'It was a mistake of course, she hadn't sent for me at all. Well there I was in the middle of the night, with my hair all anyhow and in a filthy old dressing gown; and there in the shelter sat Queen Mary perfectly dressed with her pearls, doing a crossword puzzle.
J. Pope-Hennessy, The Quest for Queen Mary, ed. H. Vickers (2018), 324
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