Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

I have to be seen to be believed.

To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women

Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendour 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.

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.

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.