Regal Attire Quotes

The Queen is the only person who can put on a tiara with one hand, while walking down stairs.

Processions, cavalcades, and all that fund of gay frippery, furnished out by tailors, barbers, and tire-women, mechanically influence the mind into veneration; an emperor in his nightcap would not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.

Well, no one treats me like a full-fledged royal, said Lissa, turning back to the dresses. No reason to act like one now. Show me your straps and short-sleeves.

The royal kingcup bold Dares not don his coat of gold.

What I love most about Her Majesty is that she has kept hats alive in people's minds for more than 60 years. You can't think of her without imagining her with a hat or a crown. I would, of course, love to design one for her.

Fashion is aristocratic-autocratic.

It has been the experience of a lifetime to work with Catherine Middleton to create her wedding dress, and I have enjoyed every moment of it.

The concept of Queen is to be regal and majestic. Glamour is part of us and we want to be dandy.

Queen Elizabeth of England is the real fashion icon of the century. And she has a sense of humor.

Empress of the Universe would be way too much work. I'd have to wear fancy clothes, probably including lady shoes with pointed toes, and could no longer slouch into the study in PJs and slippers. Someone would (avert!) straighten my desk. Someone would reorganize my yarn stash...in fact, they'd assign someone else to knit my socks, thus depriving me of an excuse to rest my brain while pretending to accomplish something useful.

I am a princess. I do not follow fashions--I make them.

Then it is dark; it is a night where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains.