"Grief is the price we pay for love."
Queen Elizabeth II

"Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth."
Queen Elizabeth II



"I have to be seen to be believed."
Queen Elizabeth II

"They are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt."
Queen Elizabeth II



"We are not amused."
Queen Elizabeth II

"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."
Queen Elizabeth II

"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."
Queen Elizabeth II

"In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945."
Queen Elizabeth II



"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."
Queen Elizabeth II

"The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be."
Queen Elizabeth II