The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights — the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others. – Walter Bagehot
The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other. – Walter Bagehot
Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions. – Walter Bagehot
A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. – Napoleon Bonaparte
He that can work is born to be king of something. – Thomas Carlyle
All the time I feel I must justify my existence. – Prince Of Wales Charles
There is something behind the throne greater than the King himself. – William Pitt The Elder Chatham
I have nothing against the Queen of England. Even in my heart I never resented her for not being Jackie Kennedy. She is, to my mind, a very gallant lady, victimized by whoever it is who designs the tops of her uniforms. – Leonard Cohen
A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate. – James Fenimore Cooper
Id like to be queen of peoples hearts. – Princess of Wales Diana
Call me Diana, not Princess Diana. – Princess of Wales Diana
Being a princess isnt all its cracked up to be. – Princess of Wales Diana
Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel. – Benjamin Disraeli
Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause. – John Dryden
We live in what virtually amounts to a museum — which does not happen to a lot of people. – Prince Philip Edinburgh
I cannot be indifferent to the assassination of a member of my profession, We should be obliged to shut up business if we, the Kings, were to consider the assassination of Kings as of no consequence at all. – Edward VII
I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love. I now quit altogether public affairs, and I lay down my burden. – Edward VIII
Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with your loves. And though you have had, and may have, many mightier and wiser princes sitting in this seat; yet you never had, nor shall have any that will love you better. – Elizabeth I
I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am endued with such qualities that if I were turned out of the Realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom. – Elizabeth I
