My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.
QUEEN ELIZABETH IILike all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
More Queen Elizabeth II Quotes
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For Christians, as for all people of faith, reflection, meditation and prayer help us to renew ourselves in God’s love, as we strive daily to become better people.
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[To a woman whose cellphone rang during a formal meeting:] You’d better answer that. It could be someone important.
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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.
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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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The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
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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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The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
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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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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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These wretched babies don’t come until they are ready.
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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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The Christmas message shows us that this love is for everyone. There is no one beyond its reach.
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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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In the turbulence of this anxious and active world many people are leading uneventful, lonely lives. To them dreariness, not disaster, is the enemy.
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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass.
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