Australian Women’s Weekly NZ

An outpouring of love

In a speech on her last visit to Australia in 2011, Queen Elizabeth II quoted an Aboriginal proverb: “We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love… and then we return home.”

Elizabeth’s faith was profound, guiding her through every twist and turn of her 96 years on this Earth and since her passing, clerics who knew Her Majesty have affirmed that, like her late husband, she believed wholeheartedly in resurrection.

In death, the Queen knew she

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