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the announcement that you are going to tell a good story (and the chuckle that precedes it) is always a dangerous opening.

Margot Asquith

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Margot Asquith
Age: 80 †
Born: 1864
Born: January 1
Died: 1945
Died: January 1
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County of Peebles
Margot Asquith
Countess of Oxford and Asquith
Emma Alice Margaret Tennant
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