The only portrait that really matters is the one they use to put on the ten pound note. When they take that one, you understand all you are, my dear, is currency.[to Diana]
Power is nothing without authority.
One doesn’t often get the opportunity to meet a former king. Former kings are usually dead.
One always has to accept one’s own part, I believe, in any mess.
Not having a voice is something all of us have to live with.[to Charles]
My name is Elizabeth.
Modernity is not always the answer. Sometimes antiquity is too.
In the first flush of a romantic love, we’re all blind. We see only what we want to see.
I am Queen, but I am also a woman. And a wife.
Age is rarely kind to anyone. Nothing one can do about it. One just has to get on with it.
What did the window cleaner see in the Kremlin? Nothing. That’s the trouble with iron curtains.
We must all ask ourselves when to exercise those things that are within our power and when not to.
