Quotes About Monarchy

She would have come to me if she could, she would have blessed this baby as she blessed all the others. I had a hard confinement without her here and I expect to miss her for the rest of my life. This baby came into the world just as my mother left it, and so I am naming her for my mother. And I can tell you this-I am absolutely sure that a Tudor Elizabeth is going to be one of the greatest monarchs that England has ever seen.

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While a powerful, centralized monarchy created the first great European empires, it held back the development of a strong and independent merchant class, and that held back private enterprise. As a result, capitalism did not grow out of the empires of Spain and Portugal, but out of the disadvantaged newcomers to the race for international trade, and especially England and the Netherlands.

It is twice bless'd; it blesseth him that gives and him that takes. / 'tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes the throned monarch better than his crown.

I am a vigilant monarchist. I want to see things evolve. The direction the monarchy seems to be moving in - towards a more mainland-European model - is one I would feel sympathetic about.

I am the state.

As society is modeled after the monarchial patriarchal families we grow up in, society itself becomes a dysfunctioning family system.

Till our King Henry had shook hands with Death.

A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.

Queen Elizabeth II is in fact Queen Elizabeth I and II. The reason for this is that the union between England and Scotland did not take place until 1603 - after Elizabeth I had ruled in England; therefore until 1952, there had never been a Queen Elizabeth of Scotland!

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!

Her majesty is in fact Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis.

The Norman Conquest was, in fact, the accession of

William, duke of Normandy, to the English throne.

Louis XV's contention that after him would come the deluge

Alfonso the Wise of Castile (1252-1284)

The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion.

Unlike a monarchy or a military dictatorship imposed on society from above, Fascism draws energy from men and women who are upset because of a lost war, a lost job, a memory of humiliation, or a sense that their country is in steep decline. The more

Unlike a monarchy or a military dictatorship imposed on society from above, Fascism draws energy from men and women who are upset because of a lost war, a lost job, a memory of humiliation, or a sense that their country is in steep decline.

was the beginning of the Tudor claim to an "Anglo-British

Mary's claim to the English throne as the great-granddaughter of Henry VII

the founder of the Tudor dynasty, could be the rightful king of England too.

He was therefore heir to a triple monarchy.

ENGLISH POLICY toward Mary was beginning to fall apart. Elizabeth was losing her nerve.