‘Grand Royal’ started because we were on the Lollapalooza tour, and we wanted to send this message to people that the mosh pit is corny. Stop doing that. MTV has ruined it, and it’s dangerous, and girls are getting hurt.
I love the Queen. I love the whole fairy tale of the Royal Family; the Crown Jewels; Buckingham Palace; the tourist attraction. But really, is that what we’ve got a monarchy for? It’s just for tourism, and then you survive and live off taxpayers’ money?
You never quite know what’s in store for the Royal Rumble, and I think that’s the beauty of it.
This is the deal: You win the Royal Rumble match, you go to main event WrestleMania. That’s the process.
For a sailor used to travelling light and looking after himself, many aspects of life as a royal came as an unpleasant shock to Prince Philip.
A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
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.
He caressed my backside. I had heard that he was famous for his ‘admiration’ of the ladies, but I didn’t expect him to be handling my booty. As handsome as Prince Philip is, I wasn’t sure if he was making a pass or just exercising some royal rights to squeeze the foreigners.
In Britain, many people love the royal family, and other people don’t – but either way, we own them, and we have an opinion, and we know a lot about them. It’s as though they’re our own family.
A lot of TV has moved away from family viewing. But with ‘The Royal Bodyguard,’ we have tried to make a show when no one will be worried about sitting there with their kids or their grandma.
I’ve always gravitated towards opera, and the Royal Opera House is quite possibly the greatest opera house on earth.
Theatre outings are my favourite thing to spend money on. The most influential play I saw was ‘Bent,’ which starred Ian McKellen. And I loved the original performance of ‘The Rocky Horror Show,’ with Richard O’Brien and Tim Curry at the Royal Court, when I was about 15.
I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences very sincerely for the great honour they have done me. It is an honour so great that even yet it is difficult for me to believe that it is true.
I’d like to work at the Royal Court Theatre, please.
In 1973, ‘Sizwe Banzi is Dead’ and ‘The Island,’ which I co-wrote with Athol Fugard and Winston Ntshona, transferred from The Royal Court Theatre to the Ambassadors Theatre in the West End.
Without the care I received at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, I wouldn’t look the way I do now; my back would be hunched over.
‘Rapa Nui’ is about the conflict in the 1600s on Easter Island. It’s about the clash of the royal clan and the working class.
There is no royal flower strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it, for whatever success I have attained has been the result of much hard work and many sleepless nights.
Authorised royal biographers are so straitjacketed, deferential, fawning, and unadventurous that they can only be after a knighthood. Or they’re completely scurrilous and insolent, like Andrew Morton or Paul Burrell.
The royal family are protected from public accountability by law.
To win the Royal Rumble, you don’t want to go over the top rope, obviously. But game-play-wise, hopefully you draw a later number.
There is a growing body of opinion in support of a royal commission. It’s not an issue which will go away, because the global environment is changing around us.
I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the development of artists. But we had there terribly stiff training.
When I became a principal at the Royal Ballet it was my childhood goal, a dream and I became it at 19. And then I said ‘what’s next?’ and I set myself a different goal at 19 to become an actor.
‘Wrestlemania 34’ was a great moment, winning that Andre the Giant Battle Royal, and I got to bring my creation – the Ultimate Deletion – to ‘Raw’ in the main event slot. Lot of cool stuff I’ve got to do.
Indeed, the Royal Family still retain the German custom – introduced by Prince Albert – of opening their presents on Christmas Eve rather than Christmas morning.
There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love – every man works his oar voluntarily!
I’ve got a better background than anyone else who married into the royal family since the war, excepting Prince Philip.
There were certain young actors I had trained with at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art who had always got the big parts and I was always the spear-carrier. Suddenly the roles were reversed and I couldn’t understand why, and nor could they.
I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she’s fabulous.
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.
I was like, ‘Prince, prince. Prince Ali. People know that from ‘Aladdin.’ I’m a big fan of Muhammad Ali. I can’t be Muhammad Ali. I’m looking up royal – Mustafa. Mustafa’s a royal name. Prince Mustafa, OK fine.’ Prince Mustafa Ali came from that, and it’s an easier name for people to remember, too: Prince Ali.
At the moment I’m enjoying a new challenge at the Royal Opera House, but I’m also keen to pursue my interest in television and particularly in science.
I got my big break at the Royal Variety Performance in 2006 and returned in 2008, but now to host it is such an honour and I’m unbelievably excited.
My father served in the Royal Scots Fusiliers for many years.
When we were studying at the Royal Antwerp Academy, we were taught to seek inspiration from everyone, everything and everywhere. My parents and grandparents were also a great inspiration for me a very young age.
I have absolutely no interest in the tabloids or reporting of the royal family.
I loved English at school and realised I would enjoy studying plays. I got into Royal Holloway. They had a little studio theatre where we put on plays, and that’s what I realised I wanted to do. So from there, I went to the Old Vic theatre school to learn how to do it properly.
Nobody strikes a medal for the Royal Military Canal campaign any more, but a pint in the back bar of the ancient Mermaid Inn, perched in front of one of the biggest and oldest inglenooks you’re ever likely to see, is its own reward.
And as I grew older, I then auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music in London, and they said, well, no, we won’t accept you, because we haven’t a clue – you know – of the future of a so-called ‘deaf’ musician. And I just couldn’t quite accept that.
When I left the Royal College, I decided I would only make paintings that I would want to look at myself, that felt close to my life.
Outside Buckingham Palace, the Royal Standard flies only when the reigning monarch is in residence. Sadly, there’s no similar flag outside The Woods Jupiter, which Tiger opened in the summer of 2015, spending a reported $8 million to make an upscale sports bar-and-restaurant in his image.
My mum took me to the theatre a lot, and I’d obsess over them for weeks after. She took me to see ‘The Blue Room’ at The Royal Exchange when I was 13, and that was a profound moment for me – I remember really wanting to be an actor. It really spoke to me like nothing else had before.
I am not going to write ‘Fifty Shades of Royal Purple.’ Well I could, but I would be put in a beautifully decorated – that having been my profession before – room in the Tower.
I wanted to work; it’s not right for a princess of the royal house to be commercial, so Andrew and I decided to make the divorce official so I could go off and get a job.
One of the first plays I ever did was at the Royal Court Theatre in London; it was the first play I got after drama school.
On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.
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.
I am really happy that my daughter Janhvi has been honoured with the ‘Arets Stjerneskudd’ award as the rising talent of the year by Royal Norwegian Consulate General.
Because of the earlier loss of the two elder siblings, my brother and I lived a very pampered and protected life. Nursemaids kept constant watch. With my parents busy at dinner parties and social events, we only met them as if for a daily royal audience.
It’s like I tell everybody, if you get a chance to win the Royal Rumble or the King of the Ring back when they had it, that means you’re gonna get a push. You getting an opportunity at something big, and it can really set up your future for you. So if you’re that guy, boy, it’s pressure.
Port Royal, Jamaica, was built for pirates. The town had a well-protected harbor, corrupt politicians and townsfolk, and a set of ethics that seemed passed down from Sodom and Gomorrah.
I’ve got royal blood coursing through my veins and if the boxing bug is ‘something I’ve inherited through the family bloodline, I’m proud of my genes.
