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Quotes by Royalty

"If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love."
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Princess Diana
"If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love."
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"All the time I feel I must justify my existence."
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Prince Charles
"All the time I feel I must justify my existence."
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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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Princess Diana
"It's vital that the monarchy keeps in touch with the people. It's what I try and do."
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"Family is the most important thing in the world."
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Princess Diana
"Family is the most important thing in the world."
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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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Marie Antoinette
"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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"No one is going to try to fill my mother's shoes, what she did was fantastic. It's about making your own future and your own destiny and Kate will do a very good job of that."
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Prince William
"No one is going to try to fill my mother's shoes, what she did was fantastic. It's about making your own future and your own destiny and Kate will do a very good job of that."
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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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Prince Charles
"Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?"
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"First feelings are always the most natural."
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Louis XIV
"First feelings are always the most natural."
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"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."
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Elizabeth I
"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."
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"Europe cannot confine itself to the cultivation of its own garden."
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Juan Carlos
"Europe cannot confine itself to the cultivation of its own garden."
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"Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves."
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Queen Victoria
"Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves."
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"Every man has a wild beast within him."
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Frederick The Great
"Every man has a wild beast within him."
Man,
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"I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war."
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King George V
"I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war."
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"My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfied us both. They are to say what they please, and I am to do what I please."
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Frederick II
"My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfied us both. They are to say what they please, and I am to do what I please."
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"When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage."
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Queen Victoria
"When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage."
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"My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring."
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Prince William
"My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring."
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"I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel that I am needed. I want to do, not just to be."
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Princess Diana
"I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel that I am needed. I want to do, not just to be."
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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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Catherine the Great
"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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"Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand."
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Frederick II
"Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand."
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"Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth."
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Prince Charles
"Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth."
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"Grief is the price we pay for love."
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Queen Elizabeth II
"Grief is the price we pay for love."
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"There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life."
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Mary Wortley
"There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life."
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"I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children."
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Elizabeth I
"I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children."
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"God forgive you, but I never can."
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Elizabeth I
"God forgive you, but I never can."
God,
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"All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise."
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Cleopatra
"All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise."
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"The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children."
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Edward VIII
"The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children."
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"In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945."
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Queen Elizabeth II
"In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945."
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"If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all."
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Elizabeth I
"If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all."
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"You are a pest, by the very nature of that camera in your hand."
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Princess Anne
"You are a pest, by the very nature of that camera in your hand."
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"It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches."
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Frederick The Great
"It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches."
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"An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful."
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Queen Victoria
"An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful."
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"I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all."
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Catherine the Great
"I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all."
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"Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts."
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Elizabeth I
"Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts."
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"Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can."
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Queen Victoria
"Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can."
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"Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue."
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Henry Bolingbroke
"Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue."
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"I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people."
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Elizabeth I
"I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people."
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"I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that."
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Princess Diana
"I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that."
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"I think that at the supper I neither receive flesh nor blood, but bread and wine; which bread when it is broken, and the wine when it is drunken, put me in remembrance how that for my sins the body of Christ was broken, and his blood shed on the cross."
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Jane Grey
"I think that at the supper I neither receive flesh nor blood, but bread and wine; which bread when it is broken, and the wine when it is drunken, put me in remembrance how that for my sins the body of Christ was broken, and his blood shed on the cross."
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"Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting."
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Wallis Simpson
"Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting."
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"Fool! Don't you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you."
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Cleopatra
"Fool! Don't you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you."
Now,
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"I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous."
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Queen Victoria
"I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous."
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"Your greatest achievement is to love me."
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Prince Charles
"Your greatest achievement is to love me."
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"We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep."
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Elizabeth II
"We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep."
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"I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman."
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Elizabeth I
"I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman."
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"I ground my faith upon God's word, and not upon the church."
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Jane Grey
"I ground my faith upon God's word, and not upon the church."
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"When I first met Kate I knew there was something very special about her. I knew there was possibly something that I wanted to explore there. We ended up being friends for a while and that just sort of was a good foundation. Because I do generally believe now that being friends with one another is a massive advantage. And It just went from there."
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Prince William
"When I first met Kate I knew there was something very special about her. I knew there was possibly something that I wanted to explore there. We ended up being friends for a while and that just sort of was a good foundation. Because I do generally believe now that being friends with one another is a massive advantage. And It just went from there."
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"I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything."
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Elizabeth I
"I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything."
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"A face is too slight a foundation for happiness."
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Mary Wortley
"A face is too slight a foundation for happiness."
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"A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head."
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Elizabeth I
"A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head."
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"My parents were in short street, so they had to go abroad to economize."
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Queen Mary
"My parents were in short street, so they had to go abroad to economize."
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