Televised address on April 5, 2020, after outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic. "We should take comfort that while we may have more still to endure, better days will return: we will be with our friends again we will be with our families again we will meet again." We will succeed - and that success will belong to every one of us. This time we join with all nations across the globe in a common endeavour, using the great advances of science and our instinctive compassion to heal. "While we have faced challenges before, this one is different. "Even Prince Philip has decided it's time to slow down a little – having, as he economically put it, 'done his bit'." You weren't expected to be around that long. I don't know that anyone had invented the term 'platinum' for a 70th wedding anniversary when I was born. "Reflecting on these events makes me grateful for the blessings of home and family, and in particular for 70 years of marriage. For us, a royal family, however, the message is often harder to read, obscured as it can be by deference, rhetoric or the conflicting currents of public opinion. It is a tough, even brutal, system but at least the message is a clear one for all to read. "That consent, or the lack of it, is expressed for you, prime minister, through the ballot box. And each, in its different way, exists only with the support and consent of the people. "For I know that, despite the huge constitutional difference between a hereditary monarchy and an elected government, in reality the gulf is not so wide. Tribute to her husband Prince Philip in speech to mark their Golden wedding anniversary in London, Nov. "He is someone who doesn't take easily to compliments but he has, quite simply, been my strength and stay all these years, and I, and his whole family, and this and many other countries, owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim, or we shall ever know." Televised address following the death of Princess Diana in a car crash in Paris, September 1997. I share in your determination to cherish her memory." "I for one believe there are lessons to be drawn from her life and from the extraordinary and moving reaction to her death. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her. No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. "What I say to you now, as your queen and as a grandmother, I say from my heart. Speech in the City of London, November 1992 after a fire at Windsor Castle and the failure of three of her children's marriages. In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents, it has turned out to be an 'annus horribilis'." "1992 is not a year on which I shall look back with undiluted pleasure. Speech to heads of state aboard the royal yacht Britannia, October 1989. "Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of disagreements." Speech on her Coronation Day, June 2, 1953. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust." "I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine.
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