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* MamaBear: Subverted. Elizabeth decides without batting an eyelash that her children have to stay during the Blitz.[[note]]In real life the princesses spent most of the war years at Windsor Castle, outside London proper -- though Elizabeth would join the Women's Auxiliaries in the last years of the war, once she turned eighteen.[[/note]] But then her job was to be ''Britain's'' Mama Bear.

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* MamaBear: Subverted. Elizabeth decides without batting an eyelash that her children have to stay during the Blitz.[[note]]In real life the princesses spent most of the war years at Windsor Castle, outside London proper -- though Elizabeth Lilibet would join the Women's Auxiliaries in the last years of the war, once she turned eighteen.[[/note]] But then her job was to be ''Britain's'' Mama Bear.
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* MamaBear: Subverted. Elizabeth decides without batting an eyelash that her children have to stay during the Blitz. But then her job was to be ''Britain's'' Mama Bear.

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* MamaBear: Subverted. Elizabeth decides without batting an eyelash that her children have to stay during the Blitz. [[note]]In real life the princesses spent most of the war years at Windsor Castle, outside London proper -- though Elizabeth would join the Women's Auxiliaries in the last years of the war, once she turned eighteen.[[/note]] But then her job was to be ''Britain's'' Mama Bear.
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Black Sheep cleanup, removing misuse and ZCE


* BlackSheep: Edward VIII, rather unsurprisingly, falls out with his family after the abdication.

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* ToughLeaderFacade: Elizabeth, particularly when greeting East Londoners after the palace is bombed. She keeps up a perfectly cordial and poised front.



* TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask: Elizabeth, particularly when greeting East Londoners after the palace is bombed. She keeps up a perfectly cordial and poised front.
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* CompletelyMissingThePoint: Invoked. When Edward (rather presumptuously, when you think about it) complains about rituals, his father actually has to tell him that "Monarchy ''is'' ritual."
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* OneSteveLimit: Since her mother was also Elizabeth, the princess considered herself to be and was addressed family, friends, and husband as "Lilibet".

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* OneSteveLimit: Since her mother was also Elizabeth, the princess considered herself to be and was addressed by family, friends, and husband as "Lilibet".



* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: When David turns up asking for Wallis to be recognized and starts complaining that he was forbidden from marriage even though he was king. Bertie gives him a righteous telling-off and says that a king is in service to his subjects, ''not'' the other way around.

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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: When David turns up asking for Wallis to be recognized and starts complaining that he was forbidden from marriage even though he was king. king, Bertie gives him a righteous telling-off and says that a king is in service to his subjects, ''not'' the other way around.

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* CurseCutShort: In a slightly unusual variant, an angry Bertie is describing Wallis Simpson and cuts himself off by stammering, unable to get past "She's a—!"

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* CurseCutShort: In a slightly unusual variant, an angry Twice, in the same way and over the same subject. An [[{{Angrish}} angry]] Bertie is describing Wallis Simpson and cuts himself off by stammering, unable to get past "She's a—!"finish his thought. Possibly just as well, since the second time was in front of Queen Mary.


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* OneSteveLimit: Since her mother was also Elizabeth, the princess considered herself to be and was addressed family, friends, and husband as "Lilibet".
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: David, the future King Edward VIII, and his younger brother and successor Bertie, the future King George VI. Also Bertie's daughter Lilibet, due to the above real life OneSteveLimit.
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* CurseCutShort: In a slightly unusual variant, an angry Bertie is describing Wallis Simpson and cuts himself off by stammering, unable to get past "She's a—!"

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