27 Royalty Quotes

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.

Gauss liked to call [number theory] 'the Queen of Mathematics'. For Gauss, the jewels in the crown were the primes, numbers which had fascinated and teased generations of mathematicians.

The town was abuzz with talk of the King's animals. We were fed regularly, and the King and Queen quite often enjoyed feeling my abdomen to see if I weren't pregnant; they were extraordinarily eager to have a whole family of little animals like us.

He moved away to the next picture. It was of a man with a fat smiley face and a red ribbon round him and a lot of medals. My great uncle Ambrose Fudge said Bernard carelessly. He looks a thourough ancester said Ethel kindly. Well he was said Bernard in a proud tone he was really the Sinister son of Queen Victoria. Not really cried Ethel in excited tones but what does that mean. Well I dont quite know said Bernard Clark it puzzles me very much but ancesters do turn quear at times.

To look upon her was more beautiful than anything; her splendor and her form were divine; she was a maiden, beautiful and blooming.

Quand la religion et la royaute seront abattues, le peuple en viendra aux grands, apres les grands il s'en prendra aux riches.

I wasn't opposed to the VCR. The MPAA tried to establish by law that the VCR was infringing on copyright. Then we would go to the Congress and get a copyright royalty fee put on all blank videocassettes and that would go back to the creators.

They came three thousand miles, and died, To keep the Past upon its throne; Unheard, beyond the ocean tide, Their English mother made her moan.

Alone he rides, alone, The fair and fatal king: Dark night is all his own, That strange and solemn thing.

King Richard (Patrick Stewart): 'From this day forward, all toilets in this kingdom shall be known as...'John's'!'

Said Prince Charles when they placed the crown on his head: I suppose this means that Mummy's dead.

Must is not a word to be used to princes! Little man, little man, if your late father were here he would never dare utter such a word.

I'll leave with a story whose victim, Sir David Frost, won't mind it being told, because he tells it himself. David Frost rang Peter Cook up some years ago. 'Peter, I'm having a little dinner party on behalf of Prince Andrew and his new bride-to-be Sarah Ferguson. I know they'd love to meet you, big fans; Be super if you could make it: Wednesday the twelfth.' 'Hang on... I'll just check my diary.' Pause and rummaging and leafing through diary noises. And then Peter said 'Oh dear. I find I'm watching television that night.' ~ Stephen Fry

Prince Phillip, he's a card! Has a habit of saying things like, 'You're all a bunch of fuckers! Oops!'. And he said to students visiting China, 'Don't stay here too long, you'll get all slitty-eyed!', then, 'Was that wrong? Oh, I'm sorry :'

I preferred Diana's direction to the Queen's direction. The Queen is very 'Grrr' and Diana was slightly more 'Oh!'

The Queen Mother! Bom-bom-bom I'm the queen...The Queen Mother is amazing! She has artificial hips, she has mechanical arms, she has a bionic eye...she cost six million dollars! [Sings Six Million Dollar Man theme tune whilst miming running very slowly and waving like the Queen Mother] dit-dit-dit-dit-dit-dit-dit-dit-dit-dit Papparazzi, two thousand yards! Dit-dit-dit-dit-dit [resumes theme tune] Off with the tiara! [Mimes throwing tiara like a discus] Sh-d-d-d-pow!

'[The Indian princes'] ceremonies are so irritating and ridiculous' (Ziegler, King Edward VIII, 116)

In conversation with Mona Bismarck and Gore Vidal, 'Mona said, 'Did you see Gore's new play The Best Man when you were in New York?' 'Of course not.'...'Don't like plays, only shows.' He meant musical comedies.' (Vidal, Palimpsest, 206)

Quebec City, Canada: 'A rotten priest-ridden community who are the completest passengers & who won't do their bit in anything & of course not during the war !!' (23 Aug 1919)

Outside Adelaide, Australia: '...they showed us some of the native aborigines at a wayside station in the great plain yesterday afternoon though they are the most revolting form of living creatures I've ever seen !! They are the lowest known form of human beings & are the nearest thing to monkeys I've ever seen' (11 July 1920)

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea, And love is a thing that can never go wrong And I am Marie of Roumania.

She was the people's princess and that is how she will stay, how she will remain in our hearts and our memories for ever.