#royal

National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane. ↗

— J. F. C. Fuller

#armies #demented #fight #first #generally

The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day and never need to meet your spouse. The Queen and Prince Philip have never shared a bedroom in their lives. They don't even have breakfast together. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#bedroom #big #breakfast #day #even

There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension. ↗

— Paul Getty

#control #defy #families #fortunes #heads

The colonies had little occasion to feel or to resent direct royal prerogative. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#direct #feel #had #little #occasion

There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#god #higher #leave #one thing #religion

All of the guests on 'Faces of America' were deeply moved by what we revealed about their ancestry. We were able to trace the ancestry of Native American writer Louise Erdrich back to 438 A.D. We found that Queen Noor is descended from royalty, and that's before she married King Hussein of Jordan. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#about #america #american #american writer #ancestry