They are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt.
QUEEN ELIZABETH IIFor many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
More Queen Elizabeth II Quotes
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For me, heaven is likely to be a bit of a come-down.
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[To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We’ll go quietly.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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It’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.
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Families, friends and communities often find a source of courage rising up from within. Indeed, sadly, it seems that it is tragedy that often draws out the most and the best from the human spirit.
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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass.
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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.
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[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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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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I believe that there is a great fear in our generation of being labeled as priggish.
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I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else.
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