Prince Philip: That's the last thing this country needs.
Queen Elizabeth II: What?
Prince Philip: Two women running the shop.
Queen Elizabeth II: Perhaps that's precisely what this country needs. I rather like what I've seen of her so far.
Prince Philip: What, the shopkeeper's daughter?
Queen Elizabeth II: An alderman shopkeeper's daughter who worked hard and gained a scholarship to Oxford.
Prince Philip: Yes, to study chemistry.
Queen Elizabeth II: Yes, but later changed direction and qualified as a barrister while raising twin children. You try doing that.
Prince Philip: What about her character? [reading from a newspaper article] It says here, "As a young woman, she applied for a job as a food research chemist and was rejected after the personnel department assessed her as being headstrong, obstinate, and dangerously self-opinionated."
Queen Elizabeth II: Really? Who else around here does that sound like?
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