[To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We’ll go quietly.
QUEEN ELIZABETH IIIt is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
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It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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These wretched babies don’t come until they are ready.
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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.
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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.
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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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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.
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They are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt.
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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.
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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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Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation.
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For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
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Grief is the price we pay for love.
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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.
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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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