Kathryn Lasky Quotes

I don't know in the world why anyone would consent to be a king, and never to be left to himself, but to be worried and wearied and interfered with from dark to daybreak and from morning to the fall of night.

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

I hated the royal wedding.

I am not accustomed to protocol.

I couldn't handle the rules the Queen has to live by at all, and very few of us could. It's a golden cage, really. You're never alone in that role - you are always surrounded by security.

I have absolutely no difficulty myself with the playing of God Save the Queen in the presence of Her Majesty.

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Being a small boy it's very daunting seeing the Queen around and not really quite knowing what to talk about.

First there was the changing of the guard outside the British Residence; then, through the cast-iron doors pricked in gold with the monogram of Victoria Regina, the high commissioner’s black Rolls Royce slowly emerged. On either side of the car as it slowly advanced rode a detachment of the King’s Horse…The procession, led by officers of the Egyptian mounted police, continued as far as the small cathedral of Saint Mary…where Bishop Gwynne of Cairo and Khartoum…waited in a chasuble and alb to receive the high commissioner…It was a world of ceremony complete unto itself, and the patriotic convictions served up in Bishop Gwynne’s sermons inspired the congregation with a feeling of everlastingness and certainty of fate.

When his noblemen are in his presence, they never look him in the face, but sit cowering, as we upon our knees, so they upon their buttocks with their elbows upon their knees and their hands before their faces, not looking up until the king command them. And when they are coming toward the king, as far as they do see him they do show such reverence, sitting on the ground with their faces covered as before. Likewise, when they depart from him, they turn not their backs toward him, but go creeping backward with like reverence.

Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble

The monarchy is a labor-intensive industry.

The king must never appear in public except when the occasion is extremely important or unavoidable.

I frequently dream of having tea with the Queen.

I think you can't have the monarchy without the coronation. I think you would have to get rid of the whole kit and caboodle.

The Queen is not supposed to have a favourite or prefer anything. From a very young age, they are taught that if you fall down, you don't make a face; you keep your emotions under control, and you don't let other people know what you're feeling. That's a very different kind of way of thinking from how I was brought up.

I was very privileged to enjoy The Queen Mother's company on many occasions. She was relaxed and informal - she would just sit down for a chat.

I don't know anything about being a royal child. But I have played Shakespearian kings.

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

Savor the throne, but don't mind the stool.

You can take off your hats now, gentlemen, and I think perhaps you'd better.

Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise.

I am the Prince of Wales; and think not, Percy, To share with me in glory any more: Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere.

If I am going to be the future bloody Queen of England I'm going to wear that dress once because I'm giving up the rest of my life, all of my privacy. At least I can get a new dress every day!