Royal Ambition Quotes

the title of Queen rang sweet to my ears, child though I was. ... This idea of a crown began running in my head then like a tune, and has been running a lot in it ever since.

I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.

Uneasy lies the head that craves the crown.

If kings would only determine not to extend their dominions until they had filled them with happiness, they would find the smallest territories too large, but the longest life too short for the full accomplishment of so grand and so noble an ambition.

I really should have been a pharaoh - do you know that?

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

Yes, Your Grace," I correct her. "I am My Lady, the King's Mother, now, and you shall curtsey to me, as low as to a queen of royal blood. This was my destiny: to put my son on the throne of England, and those who laughed at my visions and doubted my vocation will call me My Lady, the King's Mother, and I shall sign myself Margaret Regina: Margaret R.

I guess I've sort of always wanted to be an actress, except when I was five, which, I did want to be the Queen of England.