Larry King Live:英女王魅力远大于其子查尔斯？

ROBERT LACEY, BIOGRAPHER: Is she going to live forever? Well, we hope so because not all of us are happy about the （1） of Charles becoming king. I'm not one of those. I think he's going to make a very good king.

But, I think she's going to go on until the end. She took an oath（短语解释并造句） at the beginning of her reign, before the beginning of her reign, in fact, when she came of age that she would serve her country for the rest of her life.

She's a very religious woman. I think she'll stick to it and I think there's every chance that we'll be celebrating birthdays like this for another 20 years, certainly I hope so.

KING: Dickie Arbiter, how do the people in Britain （2） a queen? For example, what makes a good head of state?

DICKIE ARBITER: That's a very difficult one to answer because the queen doesn't have any powers. She reigns but she doesn't rule. The ruling is done by the government of the day（当时的）.（翻译句子）

I think the popularity of the queen can be gauged（测量） really by what we saw on Friday and your CNN viewers around the world saw the coverage from Windsor, probably about 20,000 people turned out into a very small area to see the queen on a （3）, on a day when she turned 80.

She stopped and talked to crowds. She took flowers from children and got a rapturous（欢天喜地的） welcome all the way down on her （3）, which lasted about 50 minutes.

And, opinion polls have suggested, done by various television networks that over 55 percent still want her to stay on the throne and not to retire or even to abdicate（退位）, which is not in our constitution anyway. So, I think, you know, generally the consensus is that she is a very popular lady and she is the monarchy.

KING: She also, Patrick, is she not a very （4） queen? She appears to be in extraordinary health.

PATRICK JEPHSON, AUTHOR: Well, a lot of people seem to think, Larry that the queen is getting younger. She certainly seems to be in extremely good health. We all hope she remains that way for a long, long time to come.

But just to add to something Dickie said there, I think one of the other reasons that she has been such a successful head of state is that we don't really know what the queen thinks about anything very much.

She has managed to be reticent（沉默寡言的） on almost every major issue of the day. That enables her loyal （5） to have their own opinions without thinking that in any way that they're in conflict with hers.

And, while just by remaining on the throne, she's a great symbol of continuity, which has been an enormous benefit to our constitution during turbulent（动荡不安的） times in the past. The fact that we don't know what she thinks about great issues of the day is also strangely comforting and it certainly works in a head of state.