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Quotes by Royalty
"The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be."
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"Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are."
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"I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am."
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"They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?"
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"Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed."
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"It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime."
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"I shall be an autocrat, that's my trade; and the good Lord will forgive me, that's his."
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"I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive."
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"A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience."
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"I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet."
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"HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it."
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"PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' beaux."
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"Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained."
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"You hear a lot of horror stories about proposing and things going horribly wrong - it went really, really well and I was really pleased when she said yes."
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"Europe cannot confine itself to the cultivation of its own garden."
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"I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married."
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"It's vital that the monarchy keeps in touch with the people. It's what I try and do."
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"Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?"
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"Is it possible that my people live in such awful conditions? I tell you, Mr Wheatley, that if I had to live in conditions like that I would be a revolutionary myself."
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"Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs."
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"Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?"
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"I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability."
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"For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied... whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of."
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"Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth."
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"It's my mother's engagement ring so I thought it was quite nice because obviously she's not going to be around to share any of the fun and excitement of it all - this was my way of keeping her close to it all."
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