The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be..

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..

I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast..

It has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all..

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth..

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime..

[On the 1982 intruder into her bedroom:] I realized immediately that it wasn't a servant because they don't slam doors..

I should like to be a horse..

To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?.

[On being criticized for her serious expression:] I simply ache from smiling. Why are women expected to beam all the time? It's unfair. If a man look….

Grief is the price we pay for love..

Good memories are our second chance at happiness..

It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind..

We have all felt those emotions in these last few days. So what I say to you now, as your queen and as a grandmother, I say from my heart..

[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?.

Experience shows that great enterprises seldom end with a tidy and satisfactory flourish. Together, we are doing our best to re-establish peace and c….

For me, heaven is likely to be a bit of a come-down..

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland an….

In the turbulence of this anxious and active world many people are leading uneventful, lonely lives. To them dreariness, not disaster, is the enemy. ….

They are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt..

There are long periods when life seems a small, dull round, a petty business with no point, and then suddenly we are caught up in some great event wh….