GLASGOW
2. Along Hope Street
There are 22 pub trails in Glasgow. There are ten trails in the centre of the city, plus five in the West End, two on The Southside across the river and four going East.
Three trails explore three of the main streets in the city centre HOPE St; RENFIELD St and WEST NILE St
Two trails are around Squares; GEORGE SQUARE and the OLD FRUIT MARKET in Merchant City.
Another five, trails take in : QUEEN St & GLASSFORD St, JAMAICA St/ST ENOCH, BATH STREET , WATERLOO St & BOTTOM of HOPE St and CHARING CROSS .
Across the river Clyde, on the South side are PAISLEY ROAD WEST and QUEEN’S PARK trails.
Going east are trails for Around THE TRONGATE, up GALLOWGATE , DUKE STREET, Dennistoun and along to SHETTLESTON
In the West End there are more trails - St George's Cross subway to Kelvin Bridge , BYRES ROAD , KELVINBRIDGE , KELVINHALL TO PARTICK and MARYHILL
Plus the SUBWAY CRAWL - 15 subway stops and the closest bars.
Glasgow pubs along Hope St
GLASGOW: HOPE STREET TRAIL
HOPE STREET trail - however only three sell real ale but two of these are great pubs and not to be missed.
From Glasgow Central walk out the main entrance and turn left and walk to the corner. Going down to the right and left is Hope St. This crawl is going wander up the right hand side of Hope St then down the opposite side back to the train station.
First right is Renfield Lane and down here are two bars Stereo and The Old Hairdressers. Continue up Hope St and turn down right at West George St to find The Society Room (Wetherspoons) . Return to hope St and walking up there is The Pot Still just a at stat of next block. Another few blocks up is Molly Malone's. Keep going up and reach The Theatre Royal at the top. Opposite here are MacConnell's and Ardnamurchan (formerly Trader Joe's). Go into MacConnell's on the corner. Now return to Ardnamurchan
Then walk down this side of Hope St to reach Rufus T Firefly. Next block down are Swing and NYC bar. Just as you reach the station building there is Ad Lib then and on the next corner is The Toby Jug. Around the corner is The Smokin’ Fox ( formerly The Hope).
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Cross over and there are some more bars that are actually on trail 6, keep going down to Park Lane and next door The Alpen Lodge, then Solid Rock Cafe and finally Denholms Bar. Cross over to walk back up to the station and there is Number 16 (formerlySotto and before that The Two Heided Man) and 26 Hope St and into the station.
A place this size is bound to have its own guides to illustrate the vast quantity, quality and styles of pubs.
CAMRA in Glasgow
Glasgow guide illustrating top ten pubs in different styles of drinking (and dining) eg Style pubs or Live Music pubs.
Timeout listing of best pubs - controversial
A good proportion of the pubs have real ale but many do not. The west coast still has a bit of a lager flavour - occasionally only lager. Real ale is not limited to trendy style pubs, and not even in many of these.
Glasgow does not have the tourist grouping of pubs as found in Edinburgh - they are mainly aimed at Glasgow folk.
Practically every pub offers food at lunch or all day
Stereo
Stereo has some stairs to go up before reaching the bar area. The counter is straight ahead while there is some seating for food to the left and, to the right is a longer area with more tables and chairs. Tables and chairs are deliberately really basic. There is a good range of bottled beer.
One of TIMEOUT’s top twenty Glasgow pubs
Have a bottle here
Lager McEwan's; Estrella; Birra Moretti; Afflinghem; Heineken; Fosters; Amstel; Krusovice
Cider Strongbow Dark Fruit; Symond's Founders Guinness
The Old Hairdressers ★
The Old Hairdressers is opposite Stereo and is also a music/art venue of the intimate type. There is a very small servery under the stairs which lead up to seating. To the left of the servery and beyond the stairs is a small room with basic table and chairs in subdued lighting.
One of TIMEOUT’S top twenty pubs in Glasgow
Have a pint
Craft Joker
Heavy William's Draught
Lager Heineken; Amstel; Kruovice
Cider Guinness
Pub Jukebox:
Alcohol themed music to listen to while you browse.
The night they invented champagne - Seth Macfarlane
The Society Room
The Society Room is a Wetherspoon pub. It is basically one rather large room. It is only sectioned off by style of seating or carpet/wood flooring rather than different rooms.
CAMRA Good Beer Guide regular, including 2023, 2024
Have one here
Real ale :Arkells Noel; Salopian Holly Bush; Sneck Lifter; Exmoor Gold; Bishops Finger
Craft beer : Devils backbone; This.Is.Lager
Bitter : Belhaven Best
Lager :1664; Amstel; Stella; Tennents; Fosters; Heineken; Tuborg; Innis & Gunn
Cider : Magners Guinness
The Pot Still ★
The Pot Still is a small bar in the city centre specialising in whisky. Small amount of seating at front and then up in a mezzanine area. A regular in the Good Beer Guide it has 4 real ales changing regularly and offers over 800 whiskies. Dogs welcome and snacks served at lunch time.
Good Beer Guide(CAMRA) ……….2023, 2024
Have one here HISTORY
real ale : Deuchars, Carte Blanc (Kelburn), Braveheart Ale, Red McGregor
heavy: Caledonia Best
lager: Kelvin Pilsner (drygate), Heverlee, Tennent’s
Cider: Magners Guinness
PLACES TO VISIT WITH PUBTRAILS
The towns and villages highlighted on this web site have a wide variety of pubs and beers in them. All of the places are great to visit, whether for a day or longer, and most have tourist attractions for all of the family.
There is a large variety of pubs throughout the different towns shown below. Some you may wish never to visit again but even discovering these can be interesting. There are pubs that you would not take your wife into. While some you could not take your girlfriend into. A few you would not take either into. However, most of the pubs are very pleasant.
HOME MAP of places visited
Alnwick Ambleside Anstruther Bakewell Bamburgh Barnard Castle Bath Berwick upon Tweed Birnam & Dunkeld Bourton on the Water Bowness on Windermere Bridge of Allan Chester Chichester Dunblane Dunoon Edinburgh Ely Fort William Glasgow Gourock Greenock Helensburgh Inverness Kelso Keswick Knaresborough Largs Linlithgow Lyme Regis Melrose Montrose Newton Stewart North Berwick Norwich Oban Pebbles Penzance Portree Pitlochry Quorn Richmond Rothesay St Andrews Seahouses Seend Shrewsbury Skipton Stirling Stratford-upon-Avon Stockton Heath Whitby Windemere Whitstable York
Molly Malone’s
Molly Malone’s is an Irish pub run by Belhaven. It is a longish pub with seating either side of door and servery counter seating a third of the way in on the left-hand wall. Seating all around is raised above the floor level. Windows to front and down right hand side from the lane. High tables in centre of room. Dark wood furniture and bar, wooden floor but light high ceilings. Offers food, lunch and evening, and plenty of different whiskies.
Have a half pint HISTORY
Craft Dublin Porter
Heavy Belhaven Best; Chieftan; Level Head
Lager St Mungo; Tennent’s; Coors; Peroni; Madri; Flint Eye
Cider Guinness
MacConnell’s
MacConnell's, Glasgow
MacConnell's, Glasgow - Cowcaddens Rd entrance
MacConnell's, Glasgow - Cowcaddens Rd entrance
MacConnell's, Glasgow - Cowcaddens Rd entrance
MacConnell's, Glasgow - Cowcaddens Rd entrance
MacConnell's, Glasgow - Cowcaddens Rd entrance
MacConnell's, Glasgow - Hope St entrance
MacConnell's, Glasgow - Hope St entrance
MacConnell's, Glasgow - Hope St entrance
MacConnell's, Glasgow - Hope St entrance
MacConnell's, Glasgow - Hope St entrance
MacConnell's, Glasgow - Hope St entrance
MacConnell's, Glasgow - Hope St entrance
MacConnell's, Glasgow - Hope St entrance
MacConnell's, Glasgow - Cowcaddens Rd entrance (old layout)
MacConnell's, Glasgow - Hope St entrance older layout
MacConnell’s is a two roomed traditional pub which has now been modernised , and has a downstairs function room. The “Lounge” entered from Hope St and “bar” entered from Cowcaddens Rd around the corner. However the only real difference is that what was the bar had a pool table. This “bar” area has some comfy booths up a few steps while the lounge area has many dining height tables and is where music acts perform. Lounge is banquette seating, dining size tables and chairs.. The décor of white bricks is common as is the lovely wooden counter at the serveries.
HISTORY
Heavy John Smith; Neck Oil
Lager Fosters; Amstel ; Birra Moretti
Cider Strongbow Guinness
PUB QUIZ
Which is the only county in Britain with two coastlines ?
Answer at foot of page
Ardnamurchan (was Trader Joe’s)
Ardnamurchan , Glasgow
Ardnamurchan , Glasgow
Ardnamurchan , Glasgow
Ardnamurchan , Glasgow
Ardnamurchan , Glasgow - when it was Trader Joe's
Ardnamurchan , Glasgow - when it was Trader Joe's
Ardnamurchan (formerly) Trader Joe’s is a large restaurant with a small area close to the bar for an intimate drink or while waiting on a table. There are a couple of tall tables with comfy stools near the servery. The servery is white marble with green tiles below white and green tiles on the wall.
Have a half pint
Beer Coast To Coast; Neck Oil
Lager Heineken; Birra Moretti; Bones; Amstel
Cider Orchard Thieves
Rufus T Firefly
Rufus T Firefly is a rock music pub. Walls are decorated with gold and silver discs and some musical guitars. There is a pool table to right of entrance. The main servery and the bar are both L shaped. Dark wood and low lighting. Food offered daily.
Have a pint here.
Heavy Joker
Lager Fosters; Heineken; Bud; Amstel
Cider Strongbow and Dark fruit Guinness
NYC
NYC has a tall bar to lean against. There are booths alongside the windows. with bar straight ahead of entrance. Drinking area curves downs a little towards the back where there are more seats
Have a pint here
American : Neck Oil ; Blue Moon
Lager : Heineken; St Mungo; Brooklyn Lager; Brooklyn Pilsner; Budvar
Cider : Inches Guinness
Ad Lib
Toby Jug
Toby Jug, Glasgow
Toby Jug, Glasgow
Toby Jug, Glasgow
Toby Jug, Glasgow
Toby Jug, Glasgow
Toby Jug opens to a large dark bar area (dark wood and low lighting) with booths at window and along left-hand wall. The bar, with stools, is on the right-hand wall with smaller tables in middle. Beyond this room is a larger very bright room with more comfortable seating. There is a fair amount of outside seating on the wide pavement.
Have a pint here HISTORY
Real Ale no more
Heavy Caledonia Best
Lager Angelo Poretti; Kelvin (Drygate);; Tennent’s; Carlsberg; Stella; Estrella ; San Miguel Special; Heverlee; Carling; Tuberg; Erdinger
Cider Ye Old English; Magners; Magners Dark Fruit Guinness
The Smokin’ Fox ★
(was The Hope)
The Smokin' Fox, Glasgow
The Smokin' Fox, Glasgow
The Smokin' Fox, Glasgow
The Smokin' Fox, Glasgow - when it was The Hope
The Smokin' Fox, Glasgow - was The Hope
The Smokin' Fox, Glasgow
The Smokin’ Fox (formerly The Hope) is an old two roomed bar which has been renovated to a high standard. The bottom half has an old counter and nice back bar. The room is light an airy due to high ceiling and large windows. This room has a large plinth table between columns for standing at in the middle of the room. There are tables at the windows, either side of entrance, and down the right-hand side. The second room is up a few wide steps from the back of the lower room and has a interesting ceiling. This has more tables and chairs and is used for dining. This pub used to be connect to The Toby Jug around the corner via both pubs back rooms. Some seating outside
Have a pint here HISTORY
Bitter: Cold Town beer; new England pale; Camden pale; Gamma ray
Lager: Cold Town beer Lager; Birra Moretti; Tennent’s; St Mungo
Cider: Inch’s Cider; Guinness
Real ale, now real gone - shame and now called The Smokin' Fox
Further down Hope St are six pubs which are part of trail 6.
These are Park Lane, Alpen Lodge, Solid Rock Cafe, Denhloms, No 16 and 26 Hope St.
Links for Glasgow city centre Pubtrails
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Trail 1 - Around George Square
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Waxy O’ Connors
Dow’s
The Vale (now closed)
Camperdown Place (closed)
Georgics
The Ark
The Piper
Committee Room No 9
Katie’s Bar
Drouthys
The Counting House
The Anchor Line
The Citizen (was The Trading House)
The Auctioneers
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Trail 2 - HOPE STREET
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Stereo
The Old Hairdressers
The Society Room
The Pot Still.
Molly Malone's.
MacConnell's
Ardnamurchan (was Trader Joe's)
Rufus T Firefly
NYC Bar
Ad Lib
The Toby Jug
The Smokin' Fox (formerly The Hope)
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Trail 3 RENFIELD STREET
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The Merchant
The Maltman
The Raven
Lauders.
The Atholl Arms
Walkabout
The Renfield Bar
Revolution
Missoula
Revolucion De Cuba
The Drum and Monkey
The Horseshoe.
Dury Lane Bar & Kitchen
Yes Bar - closed
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Trail 4 - WEST NILE St
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Vroni's Wine Bar
The Shilling Brewing Co.
The Iron Horse - closed
The Station Bar
The Intermezzo
Alfie’s (was Alfredo's)
Cul Cuil (was The Courtyard)
All Bar One
Innes & Gunn Talroom
Los Iguanas
Revolution
Ross's Original Bar
Tabac
August House
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Trail 5 - AROUND THE FRUITMARKET
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Bar 91
Beer Cafe
The Metropolitan
Marmalade Skies (was Boudoir Wine Bar) - closed
Bar Square
The Tap Room (was Steak, Rattle and Roll which was Bar Espagnol Mercado)
O'Neil's
Bar Soba
Bar Gandolfi.
Bar Home
Babbity Bowster,
Strathduie (was Macgregor's Pie & Ale Howf and before that Strathduie !)
The Black Bull
McChuills
Connolly’s LIQR (was LIQR and before that The G-Lounge)
Blackfriars of Bell St
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Trail 6 -A circle around Waterloo St & Hope St
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The Smokin’ Fox (was The Hope)
Kitty O'Shea's
El Camino (was The Drop)
Rhoderick Dhu
The Woods
The Waterloo
The Duke’s Umbrella
Sir John Muir
Oswald’s (was Kellys ;was Quarter Gill)
No 16 Bar & Kitchen (was Sotto; was The Two Heided Man)
Denholms
Solid Rock Cafe
The Alpen Lodge
The Park Lane
26 Hope St
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Trail 7 - Queen St and Glassford St
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Biere Halle
The Lab
Wonderbar
Sloans
Rocky O' Sullivans CLOSED
Strata CLOSED
Max's Bar & Grill
Thundercat
The Spiritualist
Cairns
Steps Bar
Blane Valley
Bacchus
Rab Ha's
The Pavement
The Doghouse
The Gallery Bar
The Amsterdam
The Oriental (closed)
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Trail 8 - Jamaica St- St Enoch
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O'Neil's (was The Royal Scott)
The Grant Arms
The Crystal Palace
Macsorley's
The Imperial
The Mint & Lime
Lauristons
Gallagher’s (was Kelly’s and was Coyote)
Hootenanny
Times Square
Crafty Joe's (taken over by Times Square)
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Trail 16 - Charing Cross
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Bavaria Baurhaus
Slug & Lettuce
Bon Accord
Chinaski’s
The Locale
Driftwood
The Hall
Nico’s
Kilt & Kocktails
The Hengler’s Circus
The State
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Trail 10 - Bath St
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Golf Loung
Buck’s Bar
Bloc+
The Butterfly and The Pig
Palomino
Slouch
The Griffin
Tiki Bar and Kitsch Inn
St Judes
Howlin’ Wolf
Malones
The Bay Horse
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Trail 19 - Paisley Rd West
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Lauriston Bar
The Quayside bar
The Union Bar
The Old Toll Bar
The Viceroy
The Bellrock
Grapes
The District bar
Kensington Bar
Park Bar
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trail 22 -Queen's Park
McNeil’s
The Regent
Titwood Bar
TheBbungo
Allison Arms
MJ Heraghty
Victoria Bar
Ryan’s bar
The Bell Jar
The Rose reilly
Queen’s Park Cafe
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Trail 9 - Around The Trongate
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Grace’s Irish Sports Bar
Buck’s Bar
Boteco do Brazil
Maggie May's
Avant Garde
13th Note -(closed)
Old Empire Bar (closed)
Whistler on the Green
The Old Ship Bank Bar
The Winds
The Victoria & Clutha
The Scotia
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Trail 17 - up the Gallowgate
Chrystal Bell & Co
MacKinnon’s
The Gate (check opening)
Bar ‘67 (check opening)
226 Gallowgate
Hielan Jessie
The Wee Man’s Pub
The Drover
Van Winkle (check opening)
Luke’s & The Flying Ox
Traders Lounge
The Old Burnt Barns (check opening)
Braemar
Tollbooth Bar
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Trail 18 - Duke Street, Dennistoun
The Bristol bar
The Louden tavern
The Duke Bar
the Crown Creighton
The Alexandra Bar
The Snug
The Palais
Redmond’s of Dennistoun
The Drover
The Wee Man’s Bar
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Trail 21 -Shettleston
Snedden’s Inn
The Palaceum
The Town Tavern
The Cottage Bar
The Marquis
The Drum
The Portland Arms
The Railway tavern
The Kirkhouse
Miller’s
Links for Glasgow West End & Subway Pubtrails
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Trail 11 - St George's to Kelvinbridge
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The Castle Vaults
The Hug and Pint
The Scallion (was Munro's then The Bull and now ..)
Wintersgills
The Lansdowne - closed
Webster's
Inn Deep
Cooper’s
Bakehouse
The Left bank
Stravaigin
The Doublet
Schoolhouse
Dram!
Arlington
The Carnarvon Bar
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Trail 12- Byres Rd
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Curler's Rest
the Wee Pub/The Pub
Innes & Gunn Brewery Tap
Brel
Vodka Wodka
Jinty McGinty’s
Hillhead Book Club
The Parlour
Oran Mor
BeGin
Tennent's Bar
Bar Soba
The Aragon
The Hill - closed
Gumbo - closed
The Record Factory
The Three Judges
Bag O'Nails
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Trail 13 - Kelvingrove
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Dirty Duchess
Lebowskis
Taphouse
The Grove
The Big Slide
The Snaffle Bit
The Butchershop
BrewDog
Dukes Bar
The Islay Inn
The Park Bar
No 78
Kelvingrove Cafe
The Ben Nevis
Finnieston
Brass Monkey
Strip Joint
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trail 15 - Kelvinhall to Partick and back
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To To
Kelvinhall Patrick Stumps Bar Three Judges
The Fiddlers The Dolphin
Victoria Bar Bag O’Nails
Quarter Gill Storm Queen
The Linsmor Smiddy Bar
Sparkle Horse Tenement Bar
Bauhaus Windsor Tav.
Record Factory Rosevale Tav.
Gallus Deoch An Dorus
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trail 20 - Maryhill
LOWER
The Castle Vaults
The Tower
the Star & Garter
Munn’s
The BrewHaus
The Botany Bar
The Woodside Inn
The Royalty Bar
UPPER
The First & Last
Kelvin Dock
The Punch Bow;
The Viking Bar
The Lockhouse
Harvey’s Bar
The Ram’s Head
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Trail 14 - Glasgow Subway
Waxy O'Connors
Jackson’s
Castle Vaults
The Hug
The Doublet
Curler’s Rest
The Bag O' Nails
Deoch and Doris
Brechin's
The Louden Tavern
Kensington
The Bellrock
Stanley Bar - closed
The Old Toll Bar
The Lord Nelson - closed
Laurieston
Times Square
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Who owns your pubs?
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Interesting articles to read
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Who owns your beer?
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Comparing pubs in Scotland with England
Links to pages and sites
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Books on Beer
A variety of recommended books to improve your knowledge of beer and brewing
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Stevenson & MacKay
Craig Stevenson and John MacKay use their bus passes to visit pubs the length and breadth of Scotland.
They have recorded their adventures in seven books.
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Books on Pubs
A veriety of recommended books that describe the history and development of the public house.
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CAMRA
The Campaign for Real Ale
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Places visited by Pubtrails
Villages, towns and cities which appear on this website.
“They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but couldn’t some compromise be made like being moderately wealthy and a bit moody.”
— Princess Diana
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