It’s vital that the monarchy keeps in touch with the people. It’s what I try and do.

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...

I think like any marriage, especially when you’ve had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work.

Life is just a journey.

I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.

There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.

Any sane person would have left long ago. But I cannot. I have my sons.

I have to be seen to be believed.

People think at the end of the day that a man is the only answer to fulfillment. Actually a job is better for me.

People think that at the end of the day a man is the only answer. Actually, a fulfilling job is better for me.

It’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

I like to be a free spirit. Some don’t like that, but that’s the way I am.

These wretched babies don’t come until they are ready.

I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour,...

You can’t comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable.

I complete what I start.

Being a princess isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

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

HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it.

I do what is needed.

I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

I don’t want expensive gifts; I don’t want to be bought. I have everything I want. I just want someone to be there for me, to make me feel safe and secure.

We don’t come to Canada for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves.

I’m as thick as a plank.

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

When a man opens a car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

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.

Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.

I’d like to be a queen in people’s hearts but I don’t see myself being queen of this country.

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.

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life – a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress...