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Or was obligated by the position to say so.


She's not obligated to stay in the position.

No one else is obligated to care who she is.

My country fought a war so that I wouldn't have to accept that some people are born higher than others, and everything I've learned about the royal family since has been against my will.


This is paraphrasing the Bible, and I can't find any evidence anyone ever said it in exactly those words.

Look, this thread is the only result for exact phrasing:

https://www.google.com/search?channel=fs&client=ubuntu&q=%22...

However there is evidence Queen Elizabeth I (400 years ago) said part of it: https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=tayxm6fO1kIC&pg=PA528&lp...


Thanks, I guess I misremembered. So, QEII was quoting QEI in defence of her position on banning foreign honours.




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