Which royal woman was 'a marshmallow made on a welding machine'?

To Adolf Hitler, she was the ‘most dangerous woman in Europe’ thanks to her brains and steely will to win.

Royal photographer Cecil Beaton had a more colourful turn of phrase, describing Elizabeth, to , as ‘a marshmallow made on a welding machine.’

As author Tina Brown explains in her best-selling book The Palace Papers, however cuddly and indulgent a grandmother she might have been towards , the (as she later styled herself) was ‘an implacable enforcer of royal infallibility’.

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