Daily Inspiration Quote by Robert Peel

Peel’s sentence reads like administrative housekeeping, but that’s the point: it’s power spoken in a deliberately unglamorous register. The careful time-stamp ("On the Wednesday evening") and the fussy clarification ("that is, the day I saw her Majesty") aren’t mere diary notes. They are a paper trail, a way of demonstrating that constitutional government runs on sequence, consultation, and propriety rather than charisma. Peel is narrating legitimacy into existence.

The loaded phrase is "whom I proposed to submit to her Majesty". In a monarchy that still mattered, the sovereign formally appoints ministers; in the Britain Peel is helping to consolidate, the prime minister effectively selects them. The verb "submit" performs deference while quietly asserting control. Peel signals that he has already done the real work - "conferring with all those" - before he ever enters the Queen’s presence. The Crown is positioned as the dignified endpoint of a process that has already been politically decided.

The subtext is crisis management disguised as etiquette. Peel’s career is knotted to moments when party and nation were being re-sorted (Catholic Emancipation, the Reform era, the Corn Laws). In that atmosphere, ministers are not just colleagues; they’re a coalition you must assemble, vet, and bind before the palace audience. This sentence is Peel advertising competence: no surprises for the sovereign, no loose cannons in cabinet, no public spectacle. It’s the sound of modern executive power learning to wear the old costume without ripping it.