Andrew Morton Quotes

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?

I don't think you can have any actual idea of what the Royal Family are really like from how they are portrayed in the papers.

Obviously I've had this fascination with aristocracy my whole life. Like, the kings and queens of 500 years ago... they're like rock stars. If there was a 'TMZ' 500 years ago, it would be about, like, Henry VIII and Marie Antoinette and all those people.

Every country should have at least one King Farouk.

I'm not a royal family watcher.

The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise that.

There is something about Prince William and Prince Harry that brings real modernity to the British royal family. They are also very open, human, and kind, and this is what I have tried to capture in the pictures I have taken of them as well as in my pictures of Prince William and Catherine.

In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.

When it comes to the British monarchy, I prefer to be seduced by an image than presented with a real person. It's kind of a Warhol thing.

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

If you look at the British royal family and take away the scandals and the goofy stuff that's going on, people love to have this king to look up to - the royals are like celebrities.

With television, you can make anyone look larger than life.

People think I hate the Royal Family, but that's not true.

A good war televises well; a bad war televises poorly.

How is it that the country that invented Hollywood and Madison Avenue allowed such a destructive and parodied image of itself to become the intellectual coin of the realm overseas?

There's no more private family than the royal family. People who can really only be themselves with each other. The rest of us just spend all our time fascinated by them.

I became completely obsessed with the Royal family, or at least the psychology behind them.

We know all about actors and singers because they do interviews, but with the royals, everything's so tightly controlled. They live this strange reality behind closed doors.

The film's content is the king.

That's been the key to the good success of Monaco - the closeness between the Grimaldi family and the Monegasques.

The monarchy needs publicity: they must be seen to be relevant. Unfortunately, they can't just lead quiet lives.

Prince Charles has doomed himself by so clearly wanting to be thought clever and cultured: the clever, cultured people don't buy it, and the people don't want a clever, cultured ruler.

I think we have reached a level in society - with Helen Mirren playing The Queen - when we're not surprised any more. We don't mention names. Yes, it's obvious by inference. But we don't mention names and the film is not up to point fingers at Royalty.

People say we need royalty. We have royalty in the United States - the Kardashians.

You can do anything when you're famous. That's why famous people are so dumb.