“ Grief is the price we pay for love. ”
It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
~ Queen Elizabeth Ii
I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.
What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.
In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.
