Quotes About Monarchy

Philip II and the papacy, and therefore posed a greater threat to Elizabeth's "safety

Elizabeth, her fellow sovereign as much as her rival for the past thirty years, was herself all too anxious to defend the ideal of monarchy: the principle that rulers were accountable to God alone.

He had witnessed her forced abdication and was determined to help her

Elizabeth had a firm grasp of the issues. She knew that Mary's death would alter the way that monarchy was regarded in the British Isles. A regicide would give a massive boost to Parliament, diminishing forever the "divinity that hedges a king.

his goal, unlike Elizabeth's, was to keep her off the throne.

Mary might return home as an independent queen.

The royal baptism took place a week later. Prince James was almost six months old

for the Byzantine Empire, absolute monarchy though it might be, ran its economy on socialist lines. Private enterprise was rigidly controlled: production, labour, consumption, foreign trade, public welfare, even the movement of population were all in the hands of the State. The consequence was a vast horde of civil servants, imbued by the Emperor with one overriding principle: to curb if not actually to destroy the power of the army.

In little over a month, a handful of poorly armed and largely untrained men had brought one of the greatest royal houses of Europe to its knees.

Do you think that I want to live in a communal society with people like that Battaglia acquaintance of yours, sweeping streets and breaking up rocks or whatever it is people are always doing in those blighted countries? What I want is a good, strong monarchy with a tasteful and decent king who has some knowledge of theology and geometry and to cultivate a Rich Inner Life.

What I want is a good, strong monarchy with a tasteful and decent king who has some knowledge of theology and geometry and to cultivate a Rich Inner Life.

One king, one law, one faith.

For a king and a country that were becoming increasingly reliant on long-distance travel

Power in Mercia passed to a new king named Coenwulf,

The Emergence of Kings and Kingdoms

So began the rule of the greatest king of eighth-century Britain,

Given that he would go on to reign for almost forty years, Offa must have been a young man in 757,

king who had sons by more than one woman, leading to uncertainty about which of them would succeed him.

Indeed, according to William of Malmesbury, one of them staged something of a counter-demonstration by dropping his trousers and farting loudly in the king's general direction.

through which the king, wearing his crown, was presented to his people as a divinely appointed figure of power.

Æthelred made an invaluable contribution to the war effort by dropping dead, clearing the way for Edmund to succeed him.

he was extremely powerful – arguably the most powerful of all the English kings before the Norman Conquest.

ruler of all these regions, Æthelstan has good claim to be considered the first king of England

in English.