Young Elizabeth Quotes

“I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great Imperial family to which we all belong, but I shall not have the strength to carry out this resolution alone unless you join in it with me, as I now invite you to do. I know that your support will be unfailingly given. God help me to make good my vow and God bless all of you who are willing to share in it.   The”
― Kate Williams, Young Elizabeth: The Making of our Queen

“It was a matter of making the best job you can . . . and accepting your fate.”
― Kate Williams, Young Elizabeth: The Making of our Queen

“Hitler had described the Queen Mother as ‘the most dangerous woman in Europe’, because of her effect on the national mood; her daughter was not too far behind.”
― Kate Williams, Young Elizabeth: The Making of our Queen

“first requisite of a really good officer is to temper justice with mercy’. As”
― Kate Williams, Young Elizabeth: The Making of our Queen

“I am glad we’ve been bombed,’ said the Queen famously. ‘It makes me feel I can look the East End in the face.”
― Kate Williams, Young Elizabeth: The Making of our Queen

“As the Queen put it, ‘The children will not leave unless I do. I shall not leave unless their father does, and the King will not leave the country under any circumstances whatsoever.”
― Kate Williams, Young Elizabeth: The Making of our Queen

“In this grave hour, perhaps the most fateful in our history, I send to every household of my peoples, both at home and overseas, this message, spoken with the same depth of feeling for each one of you as if I were able to cross your threshold and speak to you myself.”
― Kate Williams, Young Elizabeth: The Making of our Queen

“Life in a palace rather resembles camping in a museum,”
― Kate Williams, Young Elizabeth: The Making of our Queen

“and”
― Kate Williams, Young Elizabeth: The Making of our Queen

“she was seven. The Yorks’ emphasis on a light education was shortsighted. The”
― Kate Williams, Young Elizabeth