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British Monarchy Quotes

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.

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.

Steven Morrissey
Important, British Monarchy, Useless
"Morrissey Slams Kate Middleton, Prince Harry & ‘Useless’ Royal Family" by Rebecca Adams, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 3, 2012.

Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.

Edward Gibbon
Government, History, British Monarchy
Edward Gibbon (1821). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.197

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
Real, British Monarchy, Kind

There is not a power in Europe, no not even Bonaparte's that is so unlimited [as the British monarchy].

Charles James Fox
Europe, British Monarchy, Unlimited
"Charles James Fox" by L. G. Mitchell, London: Penguin, (p. 194), 1997.

The Billy Carter of the British monarchy.

Robert Lacey
Government, British Monarchy, Carter

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