The Crown Quotes (Season 4)

The greatest act of service that I can give to the Crown as princess is not to be some meek little wife following the great prince around like some smiling doll, but to be a living, breathing, present mother, bringing up this child in the hopes that the boy that will one day become king still has a vestige of humanity in him.

If you’re not first in line, if you’re an individual character with individual needs, and God forbid an irregular temperament… If you don’t fit the perfect mold of silent, dutiful supplication, then you’ll be spat out, or you’ll be hidden away, or, worse, declared dead!

How many times can this family make the same mistake? Forbidding marriages that should be allowed. Forcing others that shouldn’t. Paying the consequences each time

There comes a point in any failing marriage, and here I speak with some experience, when you realize there’s no point in trying anymore, and it’s easier to just let the current take you away.

Self-pity won’t get you very far. You’ve just got to get on with it.

Begging for anything is desperate. Begging for pardon is common.

Always a mistake to assume just because people are privileged, they lack grit.

When you’ve been in my position as long as I have, you see how quickly and how often a nation’s fortunes can change. Joblessness, recession, crises, war. All of these things have a way of correcting themselves. Countries bounce back. People do. Because they simply have to.

This wedding can’t go ahead. It’ll be a disaster for everyone.

There’s no such thing as political murder or political bombing or political violence. There’s only criminal murder, criminal bombing, and criminal violence.

There is a limit to what one can do if people are themselves limited.

Power is nothing without authority.