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

Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas. But it's a wonderful game.

I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.

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.

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

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