Top 55 Royal Family Quotes

There’s nothing wrong with anybody from any other country having a perspective on the British royal family. It would be interesting. But I just doubt that they would get the dialogue right.

The Royal family to me are not England, and they are not the flag.

Common sense would tell you that the idea that Saudi Arabia was paying for bin Laden’s expenses while he was living in Abbottabad is simply risible. Bin Laden’s principal goal was the overthrow of the Saudi royal family as a result of which his Saudi citizenship was revoked as far back as 1994.

Certainly I would not risk a single life to restore the Kuwaiti royal family to the throne.

I became completely obsessed with the Royal family, or at least the psychology behind them.

There’s no more private family than the royal family. People who can really only be themselves with each other. The rest of us just spend all our time fascinated by them.

Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children.

It’s not legally possible to put an image of a member of the royal family on the Tube!

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.

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.

In terms of the Japanese royal family, they were considered the direct descendants of a god. They are regarded as all-powerful and possessors of unimaginable wealth, and yet they are, more often than not, literally prisoners of tradition.

I don’t think you can have any actual idea of what the Royal Family are really like from how they are portrayed in the papers.

The list of erratic actions from Mohammed bin Salman is long: the jailing of royal family members, the detention of the Lebanese prime minister, a nonsensical feud with Qatar, the growing internal repression of political speech, and the disastrous war in Yemen.

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 don’t like the royal family, I don’t like the establishment, I don’t like the civil service.

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.

How can it be that we laugh about England’s obsession with the royal family? At least the royal family has college degrees and military service.

But I’m not the first person in the Royal Family to bring out a book.

I love the Royal Family and every aspect of Britain and what we have achieved in history.

There is a law against discrimination in England. But there is a different law for the royal family.

Rasputin’s daughter understands the revolution. She would have been an outsider, a spectator in the royal family and to the revolution.

I’ve got a better background than anyone else who married into the royal family since the war, excepting Prince Philip.

Diana became a superstar when she became a part of the Royal Family because she brought youth and glamour and fun into a staid and dusty institution, and at times she eclipsed the Prince of Wales. It was one of the early problems within their marriage.

Growing up, my mates and I would have rather been Sid Vicious or members of the Royal Family.

I think in America, people have this, I think you guys have an obsession over the Royal family in a way that we don’t. Because I guess we just live with it.

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.

I have watched people around members of the royal family for a long time now, and something very strange happens to them. They turn into sycophants.

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.

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.

I’m not an anarchist, but I believe that people don’t want the royal family – the so-called royal family.

Dad hails from the royal family of Tripura, Kooch Bihar and Baroda and is a great chef. Be it Nepalese, Italian, Lebanese, Chinese, Mughlai, Punjabi or Thai cuisine, he knows the nuances of them all.

You are a member of the British royal family. We are never tired, and we all love hospitals.

I have absolutely no interest in the tabloids or reporting of the royal family.

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.

Matt Damon’s anti-fracking diatribe was funded by the royal family of the United Arab Emirates.

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.

In any family, the joy of a wedding must be tinged with a little anxiety. So many marriages fail. Luckily, people often get over such traumas. But for the Royal Family, marriages carry the gravest dangers.

People think I hate the Royal Family, but that’s not true.

I don’t have a saviour or a royal family.

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.

I’m indifferent to the royal family really, but I do feel sorry for them. We know what happened to Diana. It’s an impossible situation.

I read a lot about her. I read a lot of bios. I read bios about the royal family; I read this little novella called ‘The Uncommon Reader,’ which is a fiction: it’s about Queen Elizabeth going on this library bus and choosing books and reading them, but it’s so sweet.

The royal family are protected from public accountability by law.

The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don’t think people quite realise that.

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.

Anger at the wealth gap is no longer about dukes in horse-drawn carriages; it’s about vast, tax-dodging corporations. This will not be assuaged by seeing the royal family claiming to live like we do. If anything, that will make us angrier.

I can’t believe I’ve met the royal family. It’s, like, one of those things you never expect to do in your life.

As far as I’m concerned, when the Queen, who we all love very much, is finished with her reign then Britain should go and stop being a banana republic as it is when we have the royal family and become a real republic.

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.

When you look at Prince Charles, don’t you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone in the Royal family?

I never liked the idea of the ‘Royal Family’ film. I always thought it was a rotten idea.

There are precedents for what happens when societies allow the divide between rich and poor to get so huge that it stops being funny and starts becoming a sick, blood-boiling joke. If you had a Tardis, you could go back to 1917 and ask the Russian royal family how it was all going.

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?

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.

Iraq… has also had contacts with al-Qaida. Their ties may be limited by divergent ideologies, but the two sides’ mutual antipathy toward the United States and the Saudi royal family suggests that tactical cooperation between them is possible.