Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.

I have to be seen to be believed.

I believe that there is a great fear in our generation of being labeled as priggish.

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.

[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?

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

Think what we would have missed if we had never ... used a mobile phone or surfed the Net -- or, to be honest, listened to other people talking about surfing the Net.