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We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock.

Queen Elizabeth II

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Horse Like Should
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The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
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Always Be British Constitution Puxxle Will
To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.
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All Consequence Deep Extend Past Sincere Suffer Sympathy Those Thought Trouble
1992 is not a year I shall look back on with undiluted pleasure. In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents, it hasturned out to be an Annus Horribilis.
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Back Correspondance More One Pleasure Shall Look Sympathetic Undilute World Year
I don’t like to badmouth people. But I’m the head of a monarchy that began in the ninth century, and I’m apparently more modern than Chris Christie.
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Badmouth Begin Century Head Like Modern Monarchy More Ninth People
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I have to be seen to be believed.
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Believe Seen
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Calm Ever Greater Husband Love Quite Simply Stay Strength Yeat
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Breakfast Country Egg Myself Prefer
[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?
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Before Each Numerous Portrait Sitting Teeth
[On the 1982 intruder into her bedroom:] I realized immediately that it wasn’t a servant because they don’t slam doors.
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Bedroom Door Immediate Intruder Realize Servant Slam
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All Best Disagreement Eccentricity Family Impetuous Like Share Youngster
Look, I know he has to appeal to the crazy right-wingers in his party, but the fact is, he’s not as forward-thinking as an eighty-seven-year-old lady who wears a crown on her head. It’s pathetic.
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Appeal Crazy Forward Look Party Pathetic Right Thinking
They are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt.
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