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00:00Queen Elizabeth II has always led in the face of loss.

00:04We know, every one of us, that in the end, all will be well.

00:09At the young age of 14, the princess gave her first public address to the children of the Commonwealth,

00:15separated from their parents during World War II.

00:18Good night and good luck to you all.

00:21When her father, King George VI, lost his battle with lung cancer,

00:24a devastated Elizabeth, just 25 years old, assumed the throne.

00:30And rose to the occasion with dignity.

00:33But decades later, tragedy struck again.

00:36In 1997, when the beloved Princess Diana was killed in a horrific car crash,

00:42the royal family grieved privately behind closed doors at their vacation home in Scotland.

00:47The Queen's silence met with public fury for seeming detached and aloof when the nation's heart was broken.

00:54I think the Queen has always known that she was under scrutiny,

00:59and so she's always felt she has to have a stiff upper lip.

01:03Dressed in black, she finally spoke as a queen, a mother, and a grandmother to Prince William and Prince Harry.

01:10It is not easy to express a sense of loss.

01:14No one who knew Diana will ever forget her.

01:17When the Queen's own mother died, the monarch spent three months in mourning.

01:21She had an infectious zest for living, and this remained with her until the very end.

01:28Through every death, every funeral, Prince Philip was by her side.

01:33The Queen calling him her strength and stay, now facing her greatest loss without him.

01:40Kelly Cobiella, NBC News, London.