Quotes About Royalty

My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.

Last year, it cost the British taxpayers $57.8 million to maintain its royal family," wrote Robert Keith Gray in Presidential Perks Gone Royal. "During that same year, it cost American taxpayers some $1.4 billion to house and serve the Obamas in the White House, along with their families, friends and visiting campaign contributors.

Yet she (Princess Diana) suffered one ancient lament of many princess brides--- her husband didn't love her, hadn't wanted to marry her, rarely slept with her, and far prefered his mistress.

Boring, religious, and intellectually limited, Marie Leczinska was called one of the two dullest queens in Europe by her own father, the other dull queen being his wife. Marie

In the 1590s, physicians examining the corpse of King Henri IV's twenty-six-year-old mistress agreed that she had, in fact, been killed by a "corrupt lemon."320

As the Dauphine stepped out of her carriage on to the ceremonial carpet that had been laid down, it was the Duc de Choiseul who was given the privilege of the first salute. Presented with the Duc by Prince Starhemberg, Marie Antoinette exclaimed: 'I shall never forget that you are responsible for my happiness!

Like her marriage, Marie Antoinette's death was a political decision.

poker hand which includes a king, queen and jack, all three face cards that appear to be 'looking at you'.

I am definitely the queen. I definitely see myself as the queen.

Being queen is overrated.

When I'm singing I'm always trying to get to the highest point possible. I'd fly to the top of Buckingham Palace to sing to the queen.

I wish I was more like my character. In character, I am the queen. I am strong. I am confident, sometimes cocky. I'm hard to beat. Out of character, I am a daughter, a sister, an aunt, a best friend and just the girl next door that likes Ben & Jerry's ice cream.

There's only one Elizabeth like me and that's the Queen.

I once said the Queen of England could use some fashion advice.

I literally got a private invite for lunch with the Queen. There was just 10 of us. And I was absolutely petrified because you can't take anyone with you, and no other sportspeople were there. There was the head of the military, and then the Queen sat next to me.

My mum has an MBE and the Queen actually came to my mum and dad's hotel for lunch with the Prince back in the 1980s.

She's my mother and the Queen.

She ain't my queen. My grandmother is my queen, and my auntie, my cousin, my daughters... the Queen's never done anything for me.

My children are not royal; they just happen to have the Queen for their aunt.

Historic Royal Palaces is an independent charity without funding from the royal family or the government. But I have met the Queen, she comes to open projects, and she is always very interested.

Sure, I'd take the responsibility of queen any day.

Being a small boy it's very daunting seeing the Queen around and not really quite knowing what to talk about.

It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent.

I consider myself the queen of pugs of New York City. I'm really into my dogs. Massive pugs, massive needlepoint, massive color!