Queen Elizabeth : “One always has to accept one’s own part, I believe, in any mess.”
King George VI : Keep one eye on the future. The distant future.
Sir Winston Churchill : We’re all dying. That’s what defines the condition of living.
Queen Mary : To do nothing is the hardest job of all. And it will take every ounce of energy that you have. To be impartial is not natural, not human.
Sir Winston Churchill : Too much knowledge can be a dangerous thing.
Antony Armstrong : He hasn’t found happiness. He’s found marriage, the very opposite of happiness.
Jacqueline Kennedy : It’s really one of the great paradoxes of being in a position where I have to talk to a great many people, but deep down, I’m happiest with animals.
Philip Mountbatten : Why does everybody think, just because we’re royal, we like fine dining? Don’t they realize we’re savages? Good for nothing but school dinners and nursery food.
Sir Winston Churchill : No man should be punished for love.
Sir Winston Churchill: Where there is heroism there will always be hope.
Sir Winston Churchill : People have to be angry at someone. But as leader, one cannot simply react to everything.
Queen Elizabeth : “They say listening is important in any marriage.”
Queen Mary : Monarchy is God’s sacred mission to grace and dignify the earth. To give ordinary people an ideal to strive towards, an example of nobility and duty to raise them in their wretched lives. Monarchy is a calling from God.
King George VI : It is better to be patient and get what you desire in the right time, than have high office thrust upon you when you are not ready.
Queen Elizabeth : In the first flush of a romantic love, we’re all blind. We see only what we want to see.