"She had invited Alexander ... to come and hear Flora Robson do Queen Elizabeth at the National Portrait Gallery." (p.9)
Dame Flora Robson (1902-1984)
British actress renowned as one of the great character players of the British theatre and cinema. She played Queen Elizabeth I in The Sea Hawk (1940); but most famously she played the same role in Fire Over England (1937), uttering the lines which are a key part of Elizabethan mythology:
'I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and valour of a King. Aye, and of a King of England too.'
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