Always Quote by Anthony Holden

A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little.

— Pierre Corneille

“The reign of Edward VI was a singularly merciful one for those harsh times. Now that we are taking leave of him let us…

— Mark Twain

What concerns anyone so much as the time he has to live?

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

I knew all about Edward VIII's abdication, George VI becoming the king and having a stammer, but nothing about how he got rid of…

— Geoffrey Rush

I think he [King Edward] was a modernizer who was a new thinker. The things he intended to do - unify the country, expand…

— Max Irons

It's been almost a century that Edward's been alone. Now he's found you. You can't see the changes we see, we who have been…

— Stephenie Meyer

He's a TV producer, a theatrical impresario, and he wants to be treated as Mr. Windsor but when the going gets rough he wants…

— Andrew Morton

Politicians get their power too late, and I think that he has inherited an impossible situation in which he is ill-equipped to deal.

— Malcolm Muggeridge

The problem for the King is just how strict The lack of liberty, the squeeze of the law And discipline should be in school…

— Robert Frost

“Charles is difficult to pigeonhole politically. Tony Blair wrote that he considered him a “curious mixture of the traditional and the radical (at one…

— Sally Bedell Smith

How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account.…

— Herodotus

It had been a royal time of luxury to him, with all its stings and contumelies, compared to the poverty that crept round and…

— Elizabeth Gaskell