The Billy Carter of the British monarchy.

The way I read Billy Carter's testimony, he was a model citizen himself until the voters went and ruined his life by making his…

— Calvin Trillin

Billy Carter, who asked his brother Jimmy, Do you think you could get me on the Gong Show? Never got a dinner!

— Red Buttons

It seems to me that Sotheby's is very much like the British monarchy: an old and apparently very venerable institution which is in fact…

— Robert Lacey

The British monarchy has the political and constitutional task of subtracting from the government and governors of Britain the papal and kingly airs that…

— Mark Helprin

“In the controversy that followed the prince's remarks, his most staunch defender was professor John Taylor, a scholar whose work I had last noticed…

— Christopher Hitchens

The invention of the camera enabled the reinvention of the British monarchy for the modern era.

— Lucy Worsley

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…

— Steven Morrissey

I believe that the visit of the Queen to the United States is an admirable occasion to produce an historical, truthful, sincere, genuine analysis…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

There are important arguments to be made about the relative merits of an hereditary or an elected head of state: but not at the…

— David Cannadine

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…

— Damien Hirst

Scandal, it bears repeating, undermines monarchies, but rarely ends them. It may be true that, according to a recent editorial in the New York…

— David Cannadine

In the 20th century, the position of the monarch as head of the Church of England was given a meaning which it never had…

— David Starkey

“So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of reason and…

— Christopher Hitchens

“This is what you get when you found a political system on the family values of Henry VIII. At a point in the not-too-remote…

— Christopher Hitchens

Americans also seem to believe that the monarchy is a kind of mediaeval hangover, encumbered by premodern notions of decorum; the reality is that…

— Adam Gopnik