| Speech: The Queen On 50 Years of Marriage (1997) |
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| Written by Joanne Leyland | |
| Saturday, 17 November 2007 | |
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Page 2 of 4 "Since I came to the throne in 1952, ten prime ministers have served the British people and have come to see me each week at Buckingham Palace." "The first, Winston Churchill, had charged with the cavalry at Omdurman. You, Prime Minister, were born in the year of my Coronation." "You have all had one thing in common. Your advice has been invaluable, as has that from your counterparts in the countries of which I am Queen." "I have listened carefully to it all. I could not have done my job without it." "For I know that, despite the huge constitutional difference between a hereditary monarchy and an elected government, in reality the gulf is not so wide." 
"And each, in its different way, exists only with the support and consent of the people." "That consent is expressed for you, Prime Minister, through the ballot box." "It is a tough, even brutal, system but at least the message is a clear one for all to read." "For us, a Royal Family, the message is often harder to read, obscured as it can be by deference, rhetoric or the conflicting currents of public opinion. But read it we must." |
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