"Fortune has taken from me my mother and my father, and given me in their stead a kingdom."

"I will be good to you, good to your children, and good to your posterity."

"I count myself as one of the best and most fortunate women in the world, that am yet alive, and not in such cases as I have been in."

"There is no prince in the world who can boast of having a people more faithful and obedient than mine."

"I have had good experience of you, and I have found you all true and faithful subjects."