“Because they’re better than horse chestnuts. When I couldn’t get crab apples, I used horse chestnuts. Horse chestnuts are about the same size as crab apples and actually have a better shape, although the shape doesn’t matter a bit.”

 

The princess [Elizabeth] and her husband seem to have been a warm and lusty couple. Participants in Balmoral and Sandringham games of ‘Murder’ noted the unerring speed with which the pair located each other when the lights went out. Soon after their marriage a friend remarked on the princess’s wonderful complexion, and Philip laughed.
‘Yes,’ he responded, ‘and she’s like that all over!’

Robert Lacey, Monarch: The Life and reign of Elizabeth II