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Being born into the Royal Family is like being born into a mental asylum. Marrying into it is not something to be taken lightly. -- John Lydon
There was no doubt that in the early and mid-eighties that many of us in broadsheet newspapers felt that we still had a responsibility to try to protect the Royal Family or if you like protect the Monarchy from the assaults of the media. -- Max Hastings
Prince Charles is the only member of the Royal Family who ever left Cinderella for the Ugly Duckling. -- Des Hanafin
The Royal Family have always had an interest in a number of different areas of society. We are a part of society. -- Prince Andrew
The Royal Family doesn't go out shopping for their uniforms: they've got some guy sewing on all the ornaments in-house. You could say I've got my own in-house team as well. -- Theophilus London
I still read the British papers, but I've never been a Royalist, ever. It's funny, there always seems to be much more of a fascination with the Royal Family over here then there does in England. -- Paul Bettany
I would argue that television and particularly the BBC were instrumental in puffing up the Royal Family to a level where they were inflated out of all, all proportion to their relevance on the national scene. -- Andrew Morton
When the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were growing up, that was at it's height and the War cemented that with photographs of the Royal Family having breakfast together and so on, by pinning their reputation so firmly on that particular issue. -- Anthony Holden
I am fascinated by the Royal Family because they are shrouded in mystique, and the Queen, and to a certain extent William, represent fabulous blank canvases. I find the Prince of Wales less fascinating because he spills the beans and we know too much about him. -- Alison Jackson
The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day and never need to meet your spouse. The Queen and Prince Philip have never shared a bedroom in their lives. They don't even have breakfast together. -- A. N. Wilson
People think I hate the Royal Family, but that's not true. -- John Lydon
What we need is someone to abolish the House Of Lords, get rid of the Royal Family... -- John Boorman
I don't like the royal family, I don't like the establishment, I don't like the civil service. -- Paul Weller
If the Royal Family was going to assassinate someone, they would have gotten rid of me a long time ago. -- John Lydon
When you look at Prince Charles, don't you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone in the Royal family? -- Robin Williams
As a rule, ladies of the Royal Family wear light coloured clothes because such colours are more discernible against a great crowd. -- Norman Hartnell
I pretend I'm one of the royal family when I'm in a hotel and that the hotel belongs to me - it is a palace. -- Martin Short
Jews have deep respect for the Queen and the royal family. We say a prayer for them every Sabbath in synagogue. We recite a special blessing on seeing the Queen. -- Jonathan Sacks
I was wrong to exaggerate in statements related to my experiences in the White House and the Royal Family. I am truly sorry for misleading people and misstating the facts. -- Robert Irvine
My massage was marvellous. I feel really relaxed. And my masseur, Harold :You can't have a masseur called Harold. It's like having a member of the Royal Family called Ena. -- Victoria Wood
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. -- will.i.am
When I heard the royal family wanted to have me perform in celebration of Prince William's marriage, I knew I had to give them a little something. 'Wet' is the perfect anthem for Prince William or any playa to get the club smokin'. -- Snoop Dogg
For a time during the 1980s the Royal Family were not just the most influential family in Britain but probably in Europe and Prince Charles specifically was very much like a defacto Cabinet member and what he said actually had impact on public policy. -- Andrew Morton
When other helpers fail and comforts flee, when the senses decay and the mind moves in a narrower and narrower circle, when the grasshopper is a burden and the postman brings no letters, and even the Royal Family is no longer quite what it was, an obituary column stands fast. -- Sylvia Townsend Warner
I guess I've grown to admire Queen Elizabeth II more. I've always struggled with my feelings about the Royal Family. I am a supporter. I'm not someone who thinks we should get rid of them. But what I've struggled with is the lack of emotionality that the Queen seems to share. -- Samuel Barnett
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. -- Helen Mirren
I don't have a saviour or a royal family. -- John Malkovich
As I learned from growing up, you don't mess with your grandmother. -- Prince William
I never see any home cooking - all I get is fancy stuff. -- Prince Philip
There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension. -- J. Paul Getty
The Royal family to me are not England, and they are not the flag. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife. -- Prince Philip
If I see another game that involves a kidnapped princess, queen, king or other royal family member, I'll scream. In the same vein, I think the karate genre has been done to death. -- Andy Eddy
A full relationship is what God offers to those who come to God by Jesus. Imagine this! An open invitation to become a member of the royal family and a joint-heir with the Son of God. -- R. T. Kendall
It seems that England's royal family is running out of money. They are down to just $1.6 million. Well sure, that's what happens when nobody in your family has had a job for the last thousand years. -- Jay Leno
The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family. I find it very sad. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
When the question arose whether I, as a member of the royal family, should take part in active combat in the Falklands, there was no question in her mind, and it only took her two days to sort the issue. -- Prince Andrew
The Royal family have always been great philanthropists. -- Arpad Busson
The Royal family to me are not England, and they are not the flag. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
You are a member of the British royal family. We are never tired, and we all love hospitals. -- Queen Mary
I'm not an anarchist, but I believe that people don't want the royal family - the so-called royal family. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children. -- Lord Mountbatten
Growing up, it was very clear that I was a member of a royal family with a potential function later on. The question was: when and how and if? -- Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece
Saudi Arabia has stability. The social contract and the political contract between the king and the rulers and the royal family and the ruled people in Saudi Arabia is very strong and the bondage is so solid. -- Al-Waleed bin Talal
The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family. I find it very sad. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares. -- Igor Stravinsky
We do not always appreciate the role the Queen has played in one of the most significant changes in the past 60 years: the transformation of Britain into a multi-ethnic, multi-faith society. No one does interfaith better than the Royal family, and it starts with the Queen herself. -- Jonathan Sacks
The BBC is the greatest broadcaster in the world. It's the standard that everyone measures themselves against. If we lose the BBC, it won't be quite as bad as losing the royal family, but an integral part of this country will have gone. But then, I'm an old guy. -- Terry Wogan
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. -- Mario Testino
I'm not a royal family watcher. -- Bill Nighy
The royal family are protected from public accountability by law. -- Heather Brooke
My ancestors are Rajputs from Jaipur, a lineage of the royal family. -- Kangna Ranaut
Matt Damon's anti-fracking diatribe was funded by the royal family of the United Arab Emirates. -- Ben Shapiro
There will be no more British guys. Unless they are members of the royal family, of course. -- Meg Cabot
The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise that. -- Zara Phillips
Oh, I know my family's not of royal blood, but you needn't throw it in my face all the time. -- Robert N. Lee
I just long for the day when I wake up and find that the Saudi royal family are swinging from lamp-posts. -- Ken Livingstone
Do not put your trust in rivers, men who carry weapons, beasts with claws or horns, women, and members of a royal family. -- Chanakya
Monarchists frequently declare that without the royal family, Britain would be 'nothing.' What a woeful lack of love for one's country such statements express. -- Julie Burchill
I had never imagined myself, nor aspired to be, a member of a royal family. I wanted to be in the Peace Corps, not a princess! -- Queen Noor of Jordan
Even someone as photographed and aware of the camera as members of the royal family needs to feel completely comfortable if they are to look their best. -- Mario Testino
King Frederick I of Prussia conceived the Amber Chamber in 1701 as a magnificent gift to the Russian royal family that would seal the alliance between the two powers. -- Stephen Kinzer
I believe that the royal family are a focus of patriotism, of loyalty, of affection and of esteem. That is a rare combination, and we should value it highly. -- Margaret Thatcher
The US Constitution serves the same function as the British royal family: it offers a comforting symbol of tradition and continuity, thereby masking a radical change in the actual system of power. -- Joseph Sobran
There has been corruption in the Belgian civil service and at government level for decades. The Royal family do what they can to hold things together, and they don't do a bad job. -- Nicholas Royle
There is a convention that the principal heir should be kept away from real danger. As the 'spare' rather than the heir, Harry is expected by the royal family to take the ultimate military risks. -- Robert Lacey

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