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.
Many have questioned my relevance, whether I still have something to offer. In public life, the answer is, I have. Which is to leave in place a Sovereign prepared for office. Equipped, armed for her duty.
Keep one eye on the future. The distant future.
It is better to be patient and get what you desire in the right time, than have high office thrust upon you when you are not ready.
In the first flush of a romantic love, we’re all blind. We see only what we want to see.
In any marriage it’s important to find things that really bind you together, as a couple.
If we are to turn this country around, we really must abandon outdated and misguided notions of collective duty. There are individual men and women, and there are families. Self-interested people who are trying to better themselves. That is the engine that fires a nation.
I don’t have the time to be nice.
I am Queen, but I am also a woman. And a wife.
