Elizabeth I Quotes

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

I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.

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.

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

If a prince marries a foreign princess, one to the manner born, he is being snobbish and old-fashioned. If he chooses a Diana or a Fergie, glamorous outsiders, they may never adapt to the restrictions of being Royal, with calamitous results.

Every country should have at least one King Farouk.

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

I'm not a princess. My mother is, not I. I am the niece of a head of state. And with this status, I have some representational duties - nothing very constraining or very exceptional.

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

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.

The Duke of York has never remarried.

Prince Philippe is well prepared to succeed me.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Traditionally, royal females who have not had the luck to become queens regnant have been granted very limited roles. They have been expected to look pretty, be discreet, do charitable good deeds, and - if married to princes or kings - be quietly supportive and, above all, fertile.

I'm obsessed with historical English royalty.

Queen Victoria, one of our more frumpy Queen's. They're all frumpy aren't they? Because it's a bad idea when cousin's marry.

There will only ever be one Prince.

I think everyone in the United States has such admiration for the British royal family, and with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, there's a whole new interest in the younger generation.

One child is never enough for a monarch.

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