These wretched babies don’t come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH IIThese wretched babies don’t come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II[To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We’ll go quietly.
QUEEN ELIZABETH IIThink what we would have missed if we had never … used a mobile phone or surfed the Net — or, to be honest, listened to other people talking about surfing the Net.
QUEEN ELIZABETH IIIt’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH III cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else.
QUEEN ELIZABETH IIIt has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all.
QUEEN ELIZABETH IITo 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.
QUEEN ELIZABETH IIYou need to learn to stand up for yourself and what you believe and sometimes, pardon my language, kick some ass.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II1992 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.
QUEEN ELIZABETH IIThey are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II[To a woman whose cellphone rang during a formal meeting:] You’d better answer that. It could be someone important.
QUEEN ELIZABETH III have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH IIGood memories are our second chance at happiness.
QUEEN ELIZABETH III have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II[On the 1982 intruder into her bedroom:] I realized immediately that it wasn’t a servant because they don’t slam doors.
QUEEN ELIZABETH III can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II