The British monarchy has the political and constitutional task of subtracting from the government and governors of Britain the papal and kingly… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“There are maybe a hundred thousand political power brokers in this country who are truly invested in the perpetuation of a coin-operated… — Wendell Potter Copy Share Image
“This is what you get when you found a political system on the family values of Henry VIII. At a point in… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“In 2010, Bruce Sterling and Chris Nakashima-Brown wrote the short story “Windsor Executive Solutions,” a very future-weird speculative story about the future… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the 20th century, the position of the monarch as head of the Church of England was given a meaning which it… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
It seems to me that Sotheby's is very much like the British monarchy: an old and apparently very venerable institution which is… — Robert Lacey Copy Share Image
“One of my professors once told me that the last official act of the British monarchy was when Queen Victoria refused to… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
“The prominent British statesman and scholar Edmund Burke (1729–1797) emphasized another fundamental characteristic of the civil society—valuing human experience, tradition, and custom.… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
Scandal, it bears repeating, undermines monarchies, but rarely ends them. It may be true that, according to a recent editorial in the… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
When it comes to the British monarchy, I prefer to be seduced by an image than presented with a real person. It's… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
There are important arguments to be made about the relative merits of an hereditary or an elected head of state: but not… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
I believe that the visit of the Queen to the United States is an admirable occasion to produce an historical, truthful, sincere,… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles… — Steven Morrissey Copy Share Image
The invention of the camera enabled the reinvention of the British monarchy for the modern era. — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
“In the controversy that followed the prince's remarks, his most staunch defender was professor John Taylor, a scholar whose work I had… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Americans also seem to believe that the monarchy is a kind of mediaeval hangover, encumbered by premodern notions of decorum; the reality… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
There is not a power in Europe, no not even Bonaparte's that is so unlimited [as the British monarchy]. — Charles James Fox Copy Share Image
