I've always believed Elizabeth wasn't talking about material possessions as much as she was simply commenting on the fleeting nature of time and life, of how the "possessions" of her life were completely temporary and insignificant in comparison to the span of history, which she was always keenly aware of.

I hope I don't leave a beautiful corpse, either. I hope it's old, wrinked, worn out, and exhausted from a life fully and completely lived. Heck, I'm only 45, but I'm already halfway there on most of those, except possibly wrinkled. And that's only because I withstand sun well. Here's to people looking down at me in the coffin when I'm 110 and saying, "God, she was old. Check out that skin on her neck."
birdgirl73 Reviewed by birdgirl73 on . "All my possessions for a moment of time." Those were the last words spoken by Elizabeth I, Queen of England, on her deathbed. I've often wondered what she was thinking about at that moment. Was there something in her life that she had neglected to do when she had the time? Was there something she regreted? Was she just frightened, and wishing she could delay the inevitable a moment longer? Whatever she was thinking, clearly she understood that her tremendous wealth was no longer of any value whatsoever at that moment. It was all Rating: 5