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[On being criticized for her serious expression:] I simply ache from smiling. Why are women expected to beam all the time? It’s unfair. If a man looks solemn, it’s automatically assumed he’s a serious person, not a miserable one.

Queen Elizabeth II

At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Always As Christian Heart How Lie Spirit Story Stuck Togetherness
When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Accept Better Courageous Defeat Determine Down Future More Seem Struggle
I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God’s Will, united in spirit and in aim.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Annal Behind Commonwealth Empire Live Majesty More Splendid Strength Thousand Tradition Year
I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Bothered Devotion Give Heart Island Nation People
I believe that there is a great fear in our generation of being labeled as priggish.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Believe Fear Generation Great Label Priggish
Think 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 II

Honest Listen MIssed Mobile Net never Phone Surf Surfed Talk Think
This new power, which has proved itself to be such a terrifying weapon of destruction, is harnessed for the first time for the common good of our community.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Common Community Destructive First Good Hameed New Power Prowe Such Terrifying Time Weapon
It has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

All Always Been Case Harvest Leadership Peace Perhaps Warning
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.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

All Consequence Deep Extend Past Sincere Suffer Sympathy Those Thought Trouble
Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Earth Occupy Pay Rent Room Work
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Colonies Country Impossible Keep Know Lack Lost Manner Statesmanship Time Yield
[To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We’ll go quietly.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Country Great might Quietly Republic Someday Suggestions
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.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Badmouth Begin Century Head Like Modern Monarchy More Ninth People
They are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Aunt Happen Just Me Riyal
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.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Coronation Declare Future Gone Hope Our Power Splendid Sure Symbol Year
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.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Appeal Crazy Forward Look Party Pathetic Right Thinking

[On being criticized for her serious expression:] I simply ache from smiling. Why are women expected to beam all the time? It’s unfair. If a man looks solemn, it’s automatically assumed he’s a serious person, not a miserable one.

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[On being criticized for her serious expression:] I simply ache from smiling. Why are women expected to beam all the time? It’s unfair. If a man looks solemn, it’s automatically assumed he’s a serious person, not a miserable one.

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