I converse to you as we speak with emotions of profound sorrow. All through her life, Her Majesty The Queen – my beloved Mom – was an inspiration and instance to me and to all my household, and we owe her probably the most heartfelt debt any household can owe to their mom; for her love, affection, steering, understanding, and instance. Queen Elizabeth’s was a life properly lived; a promise with future saved and she or he is mourned most deeply in her passing. That promise of lifelong service I renew to you all as we speak. Alongside the non-public grief that each one my household are feeling, we additionally share with so a lot of you in the UK, in all of the nations the place The Queen was Head of State, within the Commonwealth and the world over, a deep sense of gratitude for the greater than seventy years during which my Mom, as Queen, served the folks of so many countries. In 1947, on her twenty-first birthday, she pledged in a broadcast from Cape City to the Commonwealth to ...