Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That's the fun of them. You're always learning.

The great marriages are partnerships. It can't be a great marriage without being a partnership.

At the time of the Silver Jubilee, I was a grumpy anti-monarchist. I didn't celebrate and was appalled by the celebrations. In my idiocy, I missed out! I feel completely differently now compared with that time.

What's great in the modern world is that it's becoming easier and easier for people to create without having access to large sums of money. They need access to certain technologies, but the cost is far less than it used to be.

It's great to be queen!

Love is a command to rise to one's highest potential, the best and noblest vision of ourselves. Love is a reward, the greatest we can earn, granted to us for the moral qualities we have achieved in our lives.

I think still it is very fine not to want children. There are far too many people in the world. It is my contribution to ecology.