Buckingham palace Quote by Steve Rushin

“Darwin’s transcendantly democratic insight that all humans are descended from the same non-human ancestors, that we are all members of one family, is inevitably…

— Carl Sagan

“For months beforehand, I fielded calls from British media. A couple of the reporters asked me to name some British chefs who had inspired…

— Marcus Samuelsson

“Imagine a terrorist pointing a Buddy missile out of a bedroom window in a London suburb and blasting Her Majesty out of bed at…

— Robert Muchamore

When George [Harrison] died the guards at Buckingham Palace played a medley of George's songs during the changing of the guard; that sort of…

— Lemmy Kilmister

I went to Buckingham Palace and I wanted to take something from there, but there was nothing good to steal, although I did nick…

— Konnie Huq

When Prince Andrew tired of romancing a pretty dancer and turned his attentions to Koo Stark, he instructed the Buckingham Palace switchboard not to…

— Ingrid Seward

People in England who do not like gardening are very few, and of the few there are, many do not own to it, knowing…

— E. M. Delafield

“A true anecdote which illustrates his unworldly nature is of the instruction he received in 1922 to appear at Buckingham Palace to receive the…

— Anonymous

“The Queen was saying only the other day that London property prices are so high that she doesn’t know how she’d cope without Buckingham…

— Edward St. Aubyn

“With all the flourishes and flowers, these pictures seemed to be created by a young woman anyway. At least one who was young at…

— Melanie Dobson

“Whatever comes,” she said, “cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

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