英女王鑽石慶典 不會提前退位

6月3日，英國女王伊麗莎白二世與王室成員搭乘“王室之舟”巡遊泰晤士河，以慶祝女王登基60週年鑽石禧年。英國首相卡梅倫對女王的不懈奉獻精神表達敬意，並表示女王不會提前退位，將用餘生繼續爲國家服務。在接受英國廣播公司採訪時，卡梅倫稱讚女王爲“卓越的有奉獻精神的公僕”。他表示，女王雖已到86歲高齡，但工作熱情絲毫未有減退，也沒有減少工作量的跡象。他還大讚女王有着強大的生命力，稱她的健康狀況很好，且目光深遠、思維敏銳。對於女王會因健康原因提前退位，以及女王會繞過查爾斯王儲轉而傳位給威廉王子等傳言，卡梅倫也一併予以駁回，稱這些都是“不可能的”。

David Cameron has paid tribute to the Queen’s unstinting devotion to her duty and ruled out any prospect of her ever stepping down early.

The Prime Minister said it was “out of the question” for the Queen to abdicate and pass the crown to either the Prince of Wales or the Duke of Cambridge.

The Prime Minister also praised the monarch’s role advising and counseling her governments, speaking of her ability to “cut through the fluff and nonsense” of day-to-day politics.

In an interview with the BBC’s Andrew Marr, Mr Cameron spoke of the Queen’s “100 percent dedication” to her role, describing her as “an extraordinarily devoted public servant".

The Queen may be 86, but Mr Cameron said he saw no sign of her slowing down or reducing her workload.

"You never see any sign that her devotion is getting any less. It's hard to think of her ever putting a foot wrong,” he said.

“I don’t see any sign of her working less hard. You never see her say, I’m going to step back a little.”

“She’s someone who seems to have enormous physical strength. She’s in incredibly good and strong health. Her insights, her sharpness is extraordinary.

In an address to both houses of Parliament earlier this year, the Queen “rededicated” herself to the service of her country for the rest of her life.

Mr Cameron said he believed that the monarch will devote herself to her duties until the last.

"You get the sense she will go on doing the amazing job she has done for this country for as long as she possibly can,” he said.

The Prime Minister dismissed suggestions that the Queen might step down early if her health suffers, or that she might want to be succeeded by her grandson instead of her eldest son.

“I think that both those things are out of the question,” Mr Cameron said.

The Prime Minister also spoke about his weekly audience of the Queen.

He is the 12th prime minister of the Queen’s reign, and she has held private weekly meetings with all of them, discussing Government business and politics.

The audiences are entirely private, with no officials present or notes kept. Mr Cameron said the private sessions are extremely useful, and spoke of the Queen’s useful and incisive contributions.

The monarch shows “extraordinary sharpness” in her assessment of events, he said, describing the audiences as “a conversation not a monologue.”

In particular, the Queen’s extensive foreign travels, including more than 200 official overseas visits, make her an invaluable source of advice on international affairs, he said.

“There’s hardly a country she doesn’t know about, hardly a head of state she hasn’t met.”

Although most of the weekly briefing concerns foreign policy and military matters, Mr Cameron said they also discuss domestic issues and the politics of the day.

“With her huge experience, she does seem to cut through the fluff and nonsense to the key common sense points that really matter,” he said.