British Quote by Kingsley Martin

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

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…

— Anonymous

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

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

Britain has a great sense of its own national pride. It's like the monarchy is the embodiment of that pride.

— John Lithgow

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

— Penny Junor

The country of Britain is wonderful because of its royalty.

— Yayoi Kusama

What royal families are very good at doing is surviving and reinventing themselves. That's true whether it's a constitutional monarchy in Britain or an…

— Robert Lacey

The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

What is striking is how the reputation of the monarchy has gone up and down in my lifetime.

— David Starkey

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