Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma Quotes

When you look at Prince Charles, don't you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone in the Royal family?

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

My children are not royal; they just happen to have the Queen for their aunt.

Since Kate Middleton came around, some people think I'm related to her, but unfortunately, there's no connection.

There's nothing secret about it. Everyone knows that I am waiting for my real parents, the king and queen, to come restore me to my rightful throne.

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.

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.

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

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

The Duke of York has never remarried.

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.

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

I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.

We were descended from royalty.

It's like a rugby team. If you're picking for the World Cup final, you're picking experience with youth. Everything is better off having that balance and that mix. I think that, especially, goes for the monarchy as well.

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 was really thrilled that we'd had a little girl, and when we came back here to Kensington, she was one of her first visitors.

The monarchy is thousands of years old and has experienced many things like 'The Crown' in the past. They're always changing and evolving; that's the thing. They have to.

Dynastic rule is when you are groomed to succeed. My father never groomed me to take over.

You, know I'm the Queen's favorite great nephew, Well, yeah I'm her only great nephew, but that's not important, I'd still be her favorite.

I am Emperor, my descendants will be numerous. From the second generation to the ten thousandth, my line will not end.

We might, either of us, be Queen of England and yet we'll always be nothing to our family.

The links between the British and the Dutch royal families are strong - Queen Beatrix's grandmother, Queen Wilhelmina, was evacuated to Britain during the Second World War. But that doesn't mean they share the same attitudes.

For much of the final decade of the 20th century, one story regularly dominated the news across much of the developed world. It was the unravelling of the marriage between the heir to the British throne and his beautiful, charismatic princess, Diana.

William's marriage to Kate Middleton showed that social class, which seemed so important when Prince Charles was looking for a bride in the Eighties, is no longer an issue.