This is what my late grandmother Elizabeth II promised

He continued, remembering his grandmother: “She was by my side in the happiest and darkest times of my life.”
Prince William continued: “I thank my grandmother on behalf of all my generation for setting an example of service and dignity in public life, and that was from a different generation, but has remained relevant to all of us.”
The Prince of Wales recalled a famous saying by his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, “Sadness is the price we pay for love,” stressing that “all the love that we will touch in the coming weeks will be a reflection of the amount of love we have felt for our exceptional queen.”