Queen Elizabeth Quotations

but the seeds of recovery are being sown.

Her mantra has always been 'never explain, never apologise' and she isn't going to change her mind now.

Tonight we celebrate the value of sport as a means of bringing together people of 71 nations and territories, and from a wide range of cultures, traditions and beliefs. It gives me the greatest pleasure to declare the 18th Commonwealth Games open.

These natural and human tragedies provided the headline news; they also provoked a quite remarkable humanitarian response. It has been clear that in the course of this year relief workers and financial support have come from members of every faith and from every corner of the world.

I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman. But I have the heart and stomach of a king - and of a King of England.

The day after my last Christmas message was broadcast, the world experienced one of the worst natural disasters ever recorded.