Queen of Our Times Quotes

“small steps’ philosophy and her conviction that cumulative deeds achieve more than the grand gesture.”
― Robert Hardman, Queen of Our Times: The Life of Queen Elizabeth II

“try and keep an open, unbigoted, inquiring mind. Admit your mistakes and be reasonably modest about your success.”
― Robert Hardman, Queen of Our Times: The Life of Queen Elizabeth II

“leaders who have seen so much, whose lives span such momentous epochs, that they find no need to posture or traffic in what’s popular in the moment; people who speak with depth and knowledge, not in sound bites. They find no interest in polls or fads.”
― Robert Hardman, Queen of Our Times: The Life of Queen Elizabeth II

“I like her because she takes her job seriously. But it seems to me that she doesn’t take herself too seriously.”
― Robert Hardman, Queen of Our Times: The Life of Queen Elizabeth II

“people of Wales gave Princess Elizabeth a child-sized, two-storey thatched cottage for her sixth birthday. Called ‘Y Bwthyn Bach’, this was no mere Wendy house, but a work of art as remarkable as Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House.IV With electricity and plumbing, it included a working wireless, the complete works of Beatrix Potter in miniature, an oil painting of the Duchess, personalized bed linen, a ship with Elizabeth’s crest on the vellum sail and a Lilliputian deed of gift from the Lord Mayor of Cardiff to ‘HRH Princess Elizabeth of York, hereinafter called the donee…’31”
― Robert Hardman, Queen of Our Times: The Life of Queen Elizabeth II

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― Robert Hardman, Queen of Our Times: The Life of Queen Elizabeth II