[Simon Foxx]

You should add above that this is from 1957.

If she gave this speech today, she’d catch hell from the Progressive Left....the train (in the UK) has “left the station” ...

[Simon Foxx]

“The trouble is caused by unthinking people who carelessly throw away ageless ideals as if they were old and outworn machinery.

They would have religion thrown aside, morality in personal and public life made meaningless, honesty counted as foolishness and self-interest set up in place of self-restraint.

In this critical moment in our history we will certainly lose the trust and respect of the world if we just abandon those fundamental principles which guided the men and women who built the greatness of this country and Commonwealth.”

EGAD - Her subjects would depose her if she gave this speech today!!!!

[tomkat]

As a proud and grateful American with roots to colonial times, I can yet say unabashedly that Elizabeth is an admirable and gracious lady, and that the world has been a bit better place for having had her in it.

[ThomasThomas]

If England did have the royals could there have ever been Monty Python?

[AwesomePossum]

"But it is not the new inventions which are the difficulty. The trouble is caused by unthinking people who carelessly throw away ageless ideals as if they were old and outworn machinery.
They would have religion thrown aside, morality in personal and public life made meaningless, honesty counted as foolishness and self-interest set up in place of self-restraint."

I wonder if she was thinking such things while giving Knighthood to the purveyors of permissiveness...8:}

[a fool in paradise]

Only about a hundred years after Queen Victoria wanted such a contraption created so she could address her subjects.

[pke]

I love her and her deep spirit and commitment. God bless the Queen!