Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Queen Elizabeth II (Queen of United Kingdom)

Queen Elizabeth II (1926–2022,) born Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, was the Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and head of the Commonwealth 1952–2022. She married Prince Philip in 1947; they had four children, King Charles III, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew, and Prince Edward. In 2015, she became the longest-reigning British monarch, ahead of Queen Victoria.

Born in London, Elizabeth grew up in London and Windsor and was educated at home. She became the successor to the throne upon her father’s sudden accession as George VI in 1936. As a teenager, she began to undertake official duties. In 1947, Elizabeth married her third cousin, Philip Mountbatten, who was created Duke of Edinburgh upon their marriage and later styled Prince Philip. He died in 2021.

In 1952, while on an official visit to Kenya, Elizabeth was proclaimed Queen upon her father’s demise. Her coronation in 1953 was the first significant royal event to be televised. It was broadcast in 44 languages and seen by over 20 million people.

Elizabeth was a keen equestrian; she kept racehorses, often visited races, and regularly visited the Kentucky stud farms in the United States. Support for the monarchy in the United Kingdom had been consistently high, as was her personal acclaim. In 2002, Elizabeth’s Golden Jubilee was marked by several days of celebrations in Britain and throughout the Commonwealth. When she died at the age of 96, after 70 years on the throne, mourners stood in a line that stretched for miles; some waited for more than 24 hours to view Elizabeth’s casket. Her somber funeral ceremony was attended by a 100 heads of foreign governments.

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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.
Queen Elizabeth II
Topics: Wisdom

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 to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
Queen Elizabeth II
Topics: Battle

These wretched babies don’t come until they are ready.
Queen Elizabeth II
Topics: Birth, Pregnancy

Grief is the price we pay for love
Queen Elizabeth II
Topics: Loss, Grief

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

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
Queen Elizabeth II
Topics: Kings, Royalty, Queens, Family

I pluck up the goodlisome herbs of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, digest them by musing, and lay them up at length in the high seat of memory by gathering them together; that so, having tasted their sweetness, I may the less perceive the bitterness of life.
Queen Elizabeth II
Topics: Quotations

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