Credo Elizabeth II

The world is not the most pleasant place. Eventually, your parents leave you and nobody is going to go out of their way to protect you unconditionally. You need to learn to stand up for yourself.

 

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else — I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

  My husband is my strength for all these years, and I am indebted to him.  

Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.

 

Grief is the price we pay for love.

 

Pleasant memories are our second chance for happiness.

It has always been easy to hate and destroy. To build and to cherish is much more difficult.

 

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

  Danger is part of my job.  

True patriotism doesn't exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.

 

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

 

It has always been easy to hate and destroy. To build and to cherish is much more difficult.