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Hello, I am in my hotel room in Glasgow about to go to sleep,

and you know how obsessed I am about my bedtime these days.

But I can't stop thinking about the speech that the Queen gave by video

tonight to the drinks reception that the world leaders were having

after the end of the first day of their bit of the Cop Climate Change Conference,

was very powerful because she talked about multiple generations of her own family

and this issue. It is a source of great pride to me that the leading role my husband played

in encouraging people to protect our fragile planet lives on through the work of our eldest son,

Charles, and his eldest son, William. I could not be more proud of them.

And then she basically said that she'd met every Prime Minister, President,

and political legend there had been in basically nearly three quarters of a century.

It has sometimes been observed that what leaders do for their people today

is government and politics. But what they do for the people of tomorrow,

that is statesmanship.

I for one hope that this conference will be one of those rare occasions

where everyone will have the chance to rise above the politics of the moment

and achieve true statesmanship. And then at the end she was talking about

our mortality, but linking it to the future?

We none of us will live forever. But we are doing this not for ourselves,

but for our children and our children's children. And those who will follow in their footsteps.

It was quite a, quite a heavy mix and very deep. And you realise that's what all this

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