1992 is not a year I shall look back on with undiluted pleasure. In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents, it hasturned out to be an Annus Horribilis.

Good memories are our second chance at happiness.

It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.

[To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We'll go quietly.

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

[On being criticized for her serious expression:] I simply ache from smiling. Why are women expected to beam all the time? It's unfair. If a man looks solemn, it's automatically assumed he's a serious person, not a miserable one.

1992 is not a year I shall look back on with undiluted pleasure. In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents, it hasturned out to be an Annus Horribilis.