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.

Families, friends and communities often find a source of courage rising up from within. Indeed, sadly, it seems that it is tragedy that often draws out the most and the best from the human spirit.

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

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

I should like to be a horse.

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

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.