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I respect the British a lot - their history, their past, their culture. I think it's beautiful, what they have with the monarchy. -- Jean-Marc Vallee
What royal families are very good at doing is surviving and reinventing themselves. That's true whether it's a constitutional monarchy in Britain or an authoritarian monarchy. -- Robert Lacey
When it comes to the British monarchy, I prefer to be seduced by an image than presented with a real person. It's kind of a Warhol thing. -- Damien Hirst
Radicalism is as British as tea and cakes, as much a part of our make-up as monarchy and football. It will never have its own jubilees, palaces or honours system. -- Geoff Mulgan
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
The British monarchy has the political and constitutional task of subtracting from the government and governors of Britain the papal and kingly airs that in America, because we have no such institution, unfortunately adhere to the president. -- Mark Helprin
It seems to me that Sotheby's is very much like the British monarchy: an old and apparently very venerable institution which is in fact very nimble on its feet, an institution invested with a great deal more self-interest than the public image would suggest. -- Robert Lacey
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
No. I am not a royalist. Not at all. I am definitely a republican in the British sense of the word. I just don't see the use of the monarchy though I'm fierce patriot. I'm proud proud proud of being English, but I think the monarchy symbolizes a lot of what was wrong with the country. -- Daniel Radcliffe
The Billy Carter of the British monarchy. -- Robert Lacey
Absolute monarchy,... is the easiest death, the true Euthanasia of the BRITISH constitution. -- David Hume
The Monarchy...is the secret well from which the flourishing institution of British Snobbery draws its nourishment -- Kingsley Martin
There is not a power in Europe, no not even Bonaparte's that is so unlimited [as the British monarchy]. -- Charles James Fox
I believe that the visit of the Queen to the United States is an admirable occasion to produce an historical, truthful, sincere, genuine analysis of how the British Monarchy evolved into its present situation. -- Malcolm Muggeridge

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