Queen Elizabeths 9 best quotes on love, life, loss and the British royal family: we have o

“It's all to do with the training; you can do a lot if you're properly trained”

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

“Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom”

“Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives, but often a description of a community, organisation or nation”

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

“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”

“When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future”

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