Monarchy Quotes

Monarchy is God’s sacred mission to grace and dignify the earth. To give ordinary people an ideal to strive towards, an example of nobility and duty to raise them in their wretched lives. Monarchy is a calling from God.

That’s the thing about the monarchy. We paper over the cracks. And if what we do is loud and grand and confident enough, no one will notice that all around us it’s fallen apart. That’s the point of us.[to Elizabeth]

Monarchy isn’t rational. Or democratic or logical or fair. Haven’t we all learned that by now? People don’t want to come to a royal palace and get what they could have at home. When they come for an investiture or a state visit, when they brush up against us, they want the magic and the mystery. And the arcane and the eccentric and the symbolic. And the transcendent. They want to feel like they’ve entered another world. That is our duty. To lift people up and transport them into another realm, not bring them down to earth and remind them of what they already have.

Monarchy is something you are, not what you do. The Crown is a symbol of permanence. Of stability. Of continuity.

A monarch should never attend celebrations when a colony cuts ties.