Quotes About Royalty

The king's daughter is all glorious within.

Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords.

The king sits in Dunfermline townDrinking the blude-red wine.

To Noroway, to Noroway,To Noroway o'er the faem;The king's daughter o' Noroway,'Tis thou must bring her hame.

Lavender's blue, dilly dilly, lavender's green;When I am king, dilly dilly, you shall be queen.

From his mother, Philip inherited the Burgundian possessions. But a few years after Philip's marriage, his wife Joanna, daughter of Isabella and Ferdinand, inherited not only Castile, but Aragon, Sicily, Naples, America, and the Indies. So when Charles V came of age, he inherited from his father, his mother, and his grandparents a great empire. He was, at once, prince of the Netherlands, king of a united Spain, and emperor of Germany.

now called Alexander Helios (Greek "Sun") and Cleopatra Selene ("Moon").

They greeted him enthusiastically as Caesar's son.

The most important personage who came to light was Oxyathres, a younger brother of Darius, to whom Oxyathres had been devoted.

The "palace" took up an entire fifth of the city

The younger children, the twins Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Selene, and Ptolemy Philadelphus, were spared.

I mean Buckingham Palace has never hired a professional public relations outfit let alone a Madison Avenue type and they would throw up their hands in horror at the very idea.

You do now have one in three people, as shown by the famous Carlton Monarchy debate poll, saying they want to get rid of the Monarchy. That was unthinkable even three, four years ago.

A real king's life is perhaps a hard one; but a pretended king's is, I warrant, much harder.

I became completely obsessed with the Royal family, or at least the psychology behind them.

I have a CBE, and I accepted it with glee because it's not bestowed on you by the royal family; it's not bestowed on you by the government; you have to be nominated by the public.

'Britain's Royal Families' became my first published book, in 1989, from The Bodley Head, and the rest of the story is - dare I say it? - history!

Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

Paying a royalty to someone for prepping an ebook is akin to paying the kid who cuts your grass a percentage of the purchase price when you sell your house. It makes no sense.

I think purple is a great color.

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.

The Royal family to me are not England, and they are not the flag.

I've started to experience being followed around where I live, and it's never nice. With acting, you realize that it's part of what you sign up for, but with the royals, you're sort of born into it.

It's cool to be a Laker: that's basketball royalty, in a sense. The best franchise in basketball, so to be drafted by them is pretty cool, pretty special.