Message from The Visitor HM The Queen

It gives me great pleasure to be with you on a day which marks such a special celebration in the life of Westminster Abbey and Westminster School.

The relationship between the Visitor and this institution in the nation’s public life is one to which I attach great personal importance. The commemoration of significant moments in our country’s history has been marked many times over the centuries in this beautiful place, and I have every reason to believe that they will continue for many centuries to come, in that remarkable way which is the hallmark of all that happens in the Abbey.

I would like to offer my congratulations to you all on this happy occasion, and to say how much I look forward to the close link which you have had for so long with the Crown continuing into the future. I am confident that over the years to come Westminster School will go on providing the best possible level of education for which it is now so justly famous. I have no doubt that the Abbey will not only remain close to the heart of the Sovereign, but will also continue to reflect and inspire our national life, and to be a spiritual focus for people throughout the United Kingdom and the wider world.

Elizabeth R