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I heard someone quote Churchill speaking of Wallis Simpson saying, re: the infamous dossier, “It is said she could make a pencil feel like a cigar.” I can’t find the source. Is it authentic or perhaps attributed to someone else? Thank you.

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Was Elena Ceaucescu’s mother found in the basement of the palace after the couple fled Bucharest in 1989? Details below.

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In the book “Last Days of the Romanovs” the author says the former czar had bad halitosis in the last months. How could this have been known and recorded?

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I heard someone quote Churchill speaking of Wallis Simpson saying, re: the infamous dossier, “It is said she could make a pencil feel like a cigar.” I can’t find the source. Is it authentic or perhaps attributed to someone else? Thank you.	11
Was Elena Ceaucescu’s mother found in the basement of the palace after the couple fled Bucharest in 1989? Details below.	3
In the book “Last Days of the Romanovs” the author says the former czar had bad halitosis in the last months. How could this have been known and recorded?	2