Claire Foy Quotes

I've spent a bit of time with the Prince of Wales, who I respect greatly. I'd give two cheers for the Monarchy.

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

I like all the families in the U.K. But what I like about the idea of the royal family is... they seem like they're well educated and there's something admirable about them. And the Queen... she reminds me of my grandma.

In my home country, which is one of the oldest kingdoms in the world, you're born with the title. You don't get elected. I don't know how the king and queen of Denmark would respond if they suddenly had to do a speech, if the people would vote for them. I don't know how that would end up.

I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.

The monarchy is a labor-intensive industry.

I grew up in a family that felt indifferent towards the royal family.

I don't think the monarchy is tawdry in the slightest. I think the monarchy is hugely important for Britain.

Every country should have at least one King Farouk.

I am very pro-royal. Britain without them would be a sadder place.

I hope royalty continues forever. This is the thing that can contribute to peace throughout the world.

You are a member of the British royal family. We are never tired, and we all love hospitals.

The Royal family to me are not England, and they are not the flag.

I'd like to see a much more open Monarchy, myself. I used to think they were completely useless and we should get rid of them. I don't necessarily feel that way anymore. I'm still ambivalent, I still loathe the British class system, and the Royal family are the apex of the British class system.

In the museum, next to the dinosaurs---that’s where the monarchy should go.

I feel very lucky to have had the opportunity to bring Peter Morgan's Princess Elizabeth to life; she is a gift of a role and a challenge I am so grateful for - a young woman trying to navigate a path through an extraordinary situation.

I thought she was just the Queen and he was Prince Philip, and that was just who they were, without thinking about them as a mother or a father or daughter.

I have so much respect for the Queen and for Charles, and what the family represents. And yet there's still a conflict about whether we can abolish the class system while also having a Royal family.

I love the Queen. I love the whole fairy tale of the Royal Family; the Crown Jewels; Buckingham Palace; the tourist attraction. But really, is that what we've got a monarchy for? It's just for tourism, and then you survive and live off taxpayers' money?

The birth certificate of the royal baby lists her parents' occupations as being 'the prince and princess of the United Kingdom.' It says that under occupation, which I guess sounds better than 'unemployed.'

Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily deserve to have an emperor's son to marry.

The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance.

For a time during the 1980s the Royal Family were not just the most influential family in Britain but probably in Europe and Prince Charles specifically was very much like a defacto Cabinet member and what he said actually had impact on public policy.

The bump I was trying to hide could be the future king of England.

The moment seemed right to me for a full and, if possible, authoritative portrait of the life and character of the Prince of Wales.