Royalty Quotes

Guid-Mornin' to our Majesty!
May Heaven augment your blisses
On ev'ry new birth-day ye see,
A humble poet wishes.

In regione caecorum rex est luscus.

That the king can do no wrong, is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.

I wish her well, but Kate Middleton is marrying beneath her.

The Princesses would never leave without me and I couldn't leave without the King, and the King will never leave.

Vive la différence, mais vive l'entente cordiale. Long live the difference, but long live the Entente Cordiale.

I for one believe that there are lessons to be drawn from her life and from the extraordinary and moving reaction to her death.

In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents, it has turned out to be an ‘annus horribilis’.

I think everybody really will concede that on this, of all days, I should begin my speech with the words ‘My husband and I’.

I would not open windows into men's souls.

Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.

Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with your loves.

The daughter of debate, that eke discord doth sow.

I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too; and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any prince of Europe, should dare to invade the borders of my realm.

I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a Sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil-willers.

The queen of Scots is this day leichter of a fair son, and I am but a barren stock.

At long last I am able to say a few words of my own…you must believe me when I tell you that 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.

These works brought all these people here. Something should be done to get them at work again.

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

I will neither abdicate the Crown nor leave Spain. Whoever rebels will provoke a new civil war and will be responsible.