86 Quotes by Queen Elizabeth II

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 and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.

For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.

These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.

No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her.

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.

I should like to be a horse.

It is as queen of Canada that I am here. Queen of Canada and all Canadians, not just one or two ancestral strains.