Effects Quote by Hilary Mantel

If the monarchy were removed tomorrow, it wouldn't have a huge effect on the national mind-set. The monarchy is mildly interesting and largely harmless.…

— Hilary Mantel

Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't…

— Prince Charles

I'd like to see a much more open Monarchy, myself. I used to think they were completely useless and we should get rid of…

— Helen Mirren

You can't keep an old monarchy in 2021. You can't do that. They need to come up-to-date with the times.

— Leon Edwards

A lot of people would like to see the monarchy scaled down.

— Clive Lewis

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

I don't think the monarchy is tawdry in the slightest. I think the monarchy is hugely important for Britain.

— Penny Junor

We could have a political movement going if it had been properly organized but the Monarchy's done itself enormous damage possibly beyond the point…

— Anthony Holden

It's very easy to just shout: 'Off with their heads!' Maybe in doing that you might lose something very valuable. I would like to…

— Helen Mirren

I embody the renewed monarchy for a new time.

— King Felipe VI

Anyone who has walked through the deserted palaces of Versailles or Vienna realise how much of a part of the life of a nation…

— William Rees-Mogg

I simply make this point, that the monarchy in so far, as it is identified with what is, in my opinion, an obsolete class…

— Malcolm Muggeridge