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6月3日，英国女王伊丽莎白二世与王室成员搭乘“王室之舟”巡游泰晤士河，以庆祝女王登基60周年钻石禧年。英国首相卡梅伦对女王的不懈奉献精神表达敬意，并表示女王不会提前退位，将用余生继续为国家服务。在接受英国广播公司采访时，卡梅伦称赞女王为“卓越的有奉献精神的公仆”。他表示，女王虽已到86岁高龄，但工作热情丝毫未有减退，也没有减少工作量的迹象。他还大赞女王有着强大的生命力，称她的健康状况很好，且目光深远、思维敏锐。对于女王会因健康原因提前退位，以及女王会绕过查尔斯王储转而传位给威廉王子等传言，卡梅伦也一并予以驳回，称这些都是“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". | 
