To do nothing is the hardest job of all, and it will take every ounce of energy that you have. To be impartial is not natural, not human. People will always want you to smile or agree or frown. The minute you do, you will have declared a position, a point of view. And that is the one thing a sovereign that you are not entitled to do. By the time you are listening to this, the funeral of elizabeth the great will have taken place,. You and i will be living history, because we'll never see an event like it in our lifetimes. I will never have been prouder to be joining, as i am, queen's college