How Quote by David Starkey Download Open image “What is striking is how the reputation of the monarchy has gone up and down in my lifetime.” — David Starkey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare How Lifetime Monarchy Reputation Up
I think the monarchy today is. . . mildly interesting and largely harmless. I can't find I can get very heated about it. In the next… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The monarchy is thousands of years old and has experienced many things like 'The Crown' in the past. They're always changing and evolving; that's… — Claire Foy Copy Share Image
“We are all in favour of monarchy. It is just that we cannot renounce our mission and the struggle we are conducting against an… — Corneliu Zelea Codreanu Copy Share Image
I don't think the monarchy is tawdry in the slightest. I think the monarchy is hugely important for Britain. — Penny Junor Copy Share Image
We have a huge institution that celebrates the undistinguished, an institution which is nearly as old as the Papists. It's been going on for… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
There is great weight in the modern times of being monarch, the scrutiny and access is much more than in times gone by. — George VI Copy Share Image
The Monarchy...is the secret well from which the flourishing institution of British Snobbery draws its nourishment — Kingsley Martin Copy Share Image
It's vital that the monarchy keeps in touch with the people. It's what I try and do. — Princess Diana Copy Share Image
Am I a raging monarchist? I suppose I'm a pragmatist and would say that this is a society where we have a royal family… — Jason Watkins Copy Share Image
I was born in a council house, my father left school at the age of 11, had his teeth out without anaesthetic at the… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
I was a complete and typical only child. I was bookish, and sport was out of the question anyway. I had read all of… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
Compare the scale and magnifcence of Versailles with St James's - the brick-built hovel in which the 18th-century kings of England lived. What was… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
Churchill may have made some horrendous mistakes - Gallipoli, for one - but he had a sense of the profundity and integrity of the… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
We have this extraordinarily unbalanced constitution, in which we have an elected dictatorship of the prime minister. — David Starkey Copy Share Image
Historians have become far too precious. Their work has become ever more specialised and, as they steadily lose the context of their studies, they… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
Floating the idea that every kid in Brixton can become a whizkid at information technology is dishonest. — David Starkey Copy Share Image
What I love doing is creating a room, with attractive paintings and colours and furnishings - very much my mother. — David Starkey Copy Share Image
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Academically, I was never that interested. I skipped classes. My biggest dream was to have a coffee shop, but I had no idea how… — Daniel Espinosa Copy Share Image
I was very lucky to get well known much later in life. You need to have flopped quite a few times to get a… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
As a family, we all loved the Flyers. To me, rooting for the Flyers were how I bonded with my dad especially. — Adam F. Goldberg Copy Share Image
This is how McGregor is, waging mental warfare before the fights. There's no way that guy is going to get in my head. — Chad Mendes Copy Share Image
I think everyone will agree that it doesn't matter how we get to an international tournament. We are going to do whatever it takes. — John McGinn Copy Share Image
Troy was a sweet, good man. We just were never destined to be married. We just didn't have the same values. But I'm not… — Suzanne Pleshette Copy Share Image
How wonderful it would be to scatter words as they rise to consciousness, to let them lie where they fall. — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
Pitchers pitch differently. Hitters, hardly anyone has the same stance. That's just how it is. — Ryan Zimmerman Copy Share Image
Everything affects hip-hop. The question is, how does it affect the money that corporations are going to invest to put out different kinds of… — will.i.am Copy Share Image
When you see how fragile and delicate life can be, all else fades into the background. — Jenna Morasca Copy Share Image