The More We Know's video: Queen Elizabeth Meets Malala at Buckingham Palace Reception

Pakistani teenage activist Malala Yousafzai met the UK's Queen Elizabeth II on Friday (October 18) at a Buckingham Palace reception. The young Nobel Peace Prize nominee, who was shot in the head by the Taliban for campaigning for girls' education, spoke with the Queen and her husband Prince Philip and presented Her Majesty a copy of her best-selling book "I Am Malala". "Today is Friday and I had to miss my school because I was meeting the Queen. And it's such an honour for me to be here now in Buckingham Palace, and it was really an honour to meet the Queen," said Yousafzai after the meeting. "Because I also wanted to raise the issue of girls not being educated on a higher platform, so that the government in every country can take action for it. And I have heard that even in the UK it's really hard for children to go to school, so we need to fight for education in the suffering countries, in the developing countries, as well as here. So I hope my education campaign will continue, then people will support me in that. If we work together, we'll soon achieve our goal, and then every child will be going to school," she continued. The teenager admitted that she felt nervous before the royal reception. "I was really confused before meeting her (Queen Elizabeth), because some people told me that you'd have to do the curtsey, some people told me you shouldn't talk until she talks, and I was like really confused, what am I going to do, I'm meeting her Majesty the Queen? And when I met her it was quite good. She was really nice, she was really nice. She talked to me in a very friendly kind of way. I also presented her my book 'I Am Malala'. And she was very nice, I really enjoyed it. It was such a great honour," said Yousafzai. After receiving death threats from the Taliban for defying the Islamist militant group with her outspoken views on the right to education, Yousafzai was shot a year ago while on a school bus near her village in Swat in north-western Pakistan. The 16-year-old advocates education for children everywhere, including in the developed countries, where she says many people don't realise that learning is a privilege. "I think it's human nature. For us nothing is important until we're deprived of it. I was living in Swat and I couldn't go to school because of terrorism. Some children cannot go to school in South Africa because of poverty. Some people, especially children in India, are deprived of education because of child labour. So there are many difficulties in our way, many hurdles in our way to get education," said Yousafzai. "That's why we realise it that it is very important that here in the UK it's easy for most children to go to school. It's part of their life, it's their routine, that's why they don't realise it, they're not going to school, they're also building up their future, they're making their future. That's why we also want to tell the children of the UK and in the developed countries that going to school, do not consider it a normal kind of part of your life. Respect it and make it important, and give it importance and work hard, because it is building up your future," she added. Yousafzai started her campaigning by writing a blog in 2009 in which she described how the Taliban prevented girls like her from going to school. She said being shot had only strengthened her resolve.