“You are handed your job as the old king or queen dies… It is not a life sentence, but a life of service.”

—  Margrethe II of Denmark

On Queenship, in an interview with the BBC during her Ruby Jubilee http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16537659 (13 January 2012).
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