Queen Rania of Jordan Quotes

I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.

Queens perhaps perform better in the role of monarch because they never take their position for granted. Many kings have failed because they believed that the public would love them whatever they did. Queens knew better.

It's great to be queen!

I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more.

It is the lot of a king to do well but to be ill spoken of.

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.

A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.

It must be terribly lonely to be a king instead of a man.

Celebrity these days is completely for sale; it's not remotely mysterious. But there's something that remains glamorous and mysterious about royalty.

I'd rather be called King than other things I've been called.

Wealth and power don't go together. Power cannot be brokered. To me, power is responsibility.

He's a TV producer, a theatrical impresario, and he wants to be treated as Mr. Windsor but when the going gets rough he wants to be treated like a member of the Royal Family.

I am quite prepared, if we can do it without any disrespect to the Crown of England, to bring our titles to the marketplace and make a bonfire of them.

I stay in France. Better to be the queen of a village than a servant in a kingdom.

It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.

I'm now the Lord of the Brighton Manor.

Queen of the Great Democracy

Titles were symbols, just as impressive buildings were symbols, except that titles, unlike buildings, cost nothing.

That's a really strange, unique position to be in - royalty is where you have no choice over what your duties are.

It wouldn't bother me at all if I weren't Princess Caroline of Monaco.

The thing with crowns is, it isn't the putting them on that's the problem, it's the taking them off.

It's good to be the king.

There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.

A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.