Quotes About Queen

Out in the country it was not uncommon to discover that she had slipped away, alone, out to the lake, maybe, or down to the cellar, where once I found her sitting in the big marooned sleigh, reading, her fur coat thrown over her knees. Things would have been terrible strange and unbalanced without her. She was the Queen who finished out the suit of dark Jacks, dark King, and Joker.

Things would have been terribly strange and unbalanced without her. She was the Queen who finished out the suit of dark Jacks, dark King, and Joker.

Where is the home of the monarchy in England? If you said Buckingham Palace, you're wrong! Whilst that is the home of Queen Elizabeth II - and has been the residence of choice since Queen Victoria's reign, the Royal Court has always remained a St James's Palace - a few steps down the road!

If someone loses a key and then finds it again, which key does one keep, the old or the new? The queen replied; 'Certainly the old one.

known among the people as the White Queen.

Did you hear about the Scottish drag queen? He wore pants.

Fruitcake really is the queen of cakes!' she insists as she passes a thick, crumbling slice. 'There is just nothing better — nothing!' Tasting it, you have to agree. The crude jokes about fruitcake seem silly and unfounded as its moist richness blooms on the tongue, stirring both memories of Christmases past and anticipation of those to come.

I was born in 1927, the only child of middle-class parents, both English, and themselves born in the grotesquely elongated shadow, which they never rose sufficiently above history to leave, of that monstrous dwarf Queen Victoria.

They justified their taking up arms against their queen by claiming they had already obtained the damning evidence

As Mary left Kirk o'Field, she passed the entrance of her own bedroom.

where Scotland and Mary Queen of Scots were concerned

How did so versatile a queen as Mary, one so beautiful and intelligent, so convivial and down-to-earth

so refused to accept the usual title of Dowager Queen.

Mary Tudor, the English queen, fell mortally ill at the age of forty-two.

France recognized Elizabeth to be the rightful queen of England.

The new baby was the only daughter and sole surviving heir of James V of Scotland and his second queen, Mary of Guise.

he started to stammer nervously. "Madam," he began, "the queen's

In England, Maitland continued to Mary, there were "three factions": the Catholics, the Protestants, and the queen.

Mary was not even English, so how could she be accountable to the queen of England or to English judges?

This was not the way to speak to a queen. Mary, visibly coloring, ordered him to be silent.

Mary wanted to appeal directly to Elizabeth at the level of queen to queen.

the queen my good sister coming of the brother, and I of the sister.

Elizabeth was almost speechless with rage.

Mary was an anointed queen, accountable to God alone.