I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana’s loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.
QUEEN ELIZABETH IIFor me, heaven is likely to be a bit of a come-down.
More Queen Elizabeth II Quotes
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Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation.
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It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.
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I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.
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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.
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In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.
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It has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all.
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Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.
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[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?
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We have all felt those emotions in these last few days. So what I say to you now, as your queen and as a grandmother, I say from my heart.
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There are long periods when life seems a small, dull round, a petty business with no point, and then suddenly we are caught up in some great event which gives us a glimpse of the solid and durable foundations of our existence.
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It is as queen of Canada that I am here. Queen of Canada and all Canadians, not just one or two ancestral strains.
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Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendour that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God’s Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.
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It’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.
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I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
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They seldom realize that on their steadfastness, on their ability to withstand the fatigue of dull repetitive work, and on their courage in meeting constant small adversities depend in great measure the happiness and prosperity of the community as a whole. …
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