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Quotes About Royalty

We wear the purple
~ Gore Vidal
A tearful queen was being led
~ Grace Lin
THE MOST CURRENT AND HIGH ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ATTREBUS
~ Greg Keyes
Since the Second World War, as female expectations and opportunities have risen, becoming a royal woman - and remaining a royal woman - has seemed less and less an attractive proposition.
~ Linda Colley
The Middletons and the Windsors might seem at first glance to be worlds apart. Kate certainly shows no sign of adopting the horsey, doggy lifestyle beloved of her grandmother-in-law. But the Queen admires how well Kate has embraced royal life, combining it cheerfully with duty and motherhood.
~ Ingrid Seward
I can remember being at Sandringham, for the first time, at Christmas. And I was worried what to give the Queen as her Christmas present. I was thinking, 'Gosh, what should I give her?'. I thought, 'I'll make her something.' Which could have gone horribly wrong. But I decided to make my granny's recipe of chutney.
~ Kate Middleton
During the summer of 2000, in the run-up to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother's 100th birthday, I asked the Duke of Edinburgh if he was hoping to reach 100. 'Good God, no,' he spluttered, 'I can't imagine anything worse. What a ghastly idea.'
~ Gyles Brandreth
I don't want to jeopardize my relationship with royalty by saying too much.
~ Gyles Brandreth
If you look at the world's top 50 drugs being sold today, they are being marketed and sold by companies that did not invent them. I respect patents. I'll pay a royalty. But I shouldn't be denied the right to produce drugs for poor people at reasonable prices.
~ Yusuf Hamied
the companion lion who overcomes all enemies, the kings and queens who command power over life, give us imaginative reconstructions of the small child's world. We
~ Selma H. Fraiberg
The only person who killed almost as many animals as the Prince was his good friend Gaston
~ Serena Valentino
The role of Empress became a full-time occupation.
~ Shan Sa
She was born Anidori-Kiladra Talianna Isilee, Crown Princess of Kildenree, and she did not open her eyes for three days.
~ Shannon Hale
You, what are you? The brat of lucky parents who were related to a childless king. There is no such thing as royal blood. I believe we are what we make ourselves, and as such, you, Crown Princess, are nothing.
~ Shannon Hale
My dear subjects, you are simply, unquestionably perfect!" she called out, tossing candy and coins to the crowd. She kept a candy-and-coin basket on the balcony so she would be ready for adoring crowds at a moment's notice.
~ Shannon Hale
The only things that excited her father, the king, more than a good ball were sustainable logging practices
~ Shannon Hale
there was a bed left in the palace that hadn't been stripped. "Mom!
~ Shannon Hale
Daring Charming was facing her down. "It's no use, Cerise Hood," said Daring. "I am a Charming—brave, cunning, athletic—" Cerise faked left and dribbled right around him, driving toward the royals' end of the court.
~ Shannon Hale
Richard knew, of course, that his was thought to be an unlucky title; only twice before had a Richard ruled England, and both met violent ends.
~ Sharon Kay Penman
Yes, but either way, shamed or not, I shall be Queen of England, and this is the last time you will sit in my presence.
~ Philippa Gregory
If the Royal Family was going to assassinate someone, they would have gotten rid of me a long time ago.
~ John Lydon
Men spend their time in following a ball or a hare it is the pleasure even of kings.
~ Blaise Pascal, Pensées
I am of the opinion that the vulva of Your Most Sacred Majesty should be titillated for some length of time before intercourse.
~ Mary Roach
My companion had recently lunched with Diana at Kensington Palace. She said being with Diana was like "being brushed by angels' wings.
~ Mary Robertson