Go back to that 21st birthday broadcast, which is made more touching by the high, young voice speaking it. How could the service she promised be accomplished, asked Princess Elizabeth. Only if “we all go forward together with an unwavering faith, a high courage and a quiet heart”, was her answer. Those words, which may have sounded at the time like semi-platitudes, have turned out to be exact descriptions of the life and character of the woman who spoke them. “We must give,” she went on, “nothing less than the whole of ourselves.” She said it, and she meant it, and she has done it. The history of famous people is usually one in which self bulks large and power and fame are grabbed. The history of our Queen runs the other way: she has never grabbed anything.