Grief Is The Price We Pay For

The World Is Not The Most Pleasant Place. Eventually, Your Parents Leave You And Nobody Is Going To Go Out Of Their Way To Protect You Unconditionally. You Need To Learn To Stand Up For Yourself And What You Believe And Sometimes, Pardon My Language, Kick Some Ass.

I Don’t Like To Badmouth People. But I’m The Head Of A Monarchy That Began In The Ninth Century, And I’m Apparently More Modern Than Chris Christie. Look, I Know He Has To Appeal To The Crazy Right-wingers In His Party, But The Fact Is, He’s Not As Forward-thinking As An Eighty-seven-year-old Lady Who Wears A Crown On Her Head. It’s Pathetic.

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.

To All Those Who Have Suffered As A Consequence Of Our Troubled Past I Extend My Sincere Thoughts And Deep Sympathy. With The Benefit Of Historical Hindsight We Can All See Things Which We Would Wish Had Been Done Differently Or Not At All.

We Have All Felt Those Emotions In These Last Few Days. So What I Say To You Now, As Your Queen And As A Grandmother, I Say From My Heart.