The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island.
William Blackstone
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If inheritance tax were to be introduced for the monarch, it would mean slowly slicing away the royal assets.
Sarah Bradford
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The greatest shoemaker in England for many, many decades; he used to be the royal shoe-maker for the Queen Mother. This is where I learnt my trade.
Manolo Blahnik
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
Kate Moss
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The Royal Academy of Dance is an institution that trains to a very high standard.
Darcey Bussell
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Before filming 'The Crown,' I couldn't care less about the royal family. But now... I'm obsessed.
Vanessa Kirby
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Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
O. Henry
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I grew up on stages. Not standing outside the 'Royal Court Theatre' wistfully, but with enthusiastic people from the community.
Jack Lowden
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Indeed, the Royal Family still retain the German custom - introduced by Prince Albert - of opening their presents on Christmas Eve rather than Christmas morning.
Ingrid Seward
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For a time during the 1980s the Royal Family were not just the most influential family in Britain but probably in Europe and Prince Charles specifically was very much like a defacto Cabinet member and what he said actually had impact on public policy.
Andrew Morton
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People think I hate the Royal Family, but that's not true.
John Lydon
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Members of royal families are born into a world of indulgence and entitlement, and the princelings who grow up that way may never have to develop the emotional musculature that will allow them to show self-restraint.
Jeffrey Kluger
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Wyndham's is a beautiful old theatre. The sensation on the stage isn't as different as you might think from the Royal Court.
Sophie Thompson
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Corney & Barrow are proud to have the royal warrant, meaning that they provide the Palace with some of the greatest - and necessarily most expensive - wines from around the world. I am pleased to say that they also hold my own warrant, for providing exceptional wines at - surprisingly - modest prices.
Simon Hoggart
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Louise Brown's birth marked the end of the beginning of human IVF, acclaimed at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. This event was snubbed by some clinicians now styled as 'pioneers', who shouted that the test-tube claim was a fake! They did not matter.
Robert Edwards
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This is the deal: You win the Royal Rumble match, you go to main event WrestleMania. That's the process.
Roman Reigns
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I remember playing the Royal Albert Hall, and a guy would say, 'Ten minutes to stage time,' and I'd get so nervous.
Mike Joyce
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I don't want to write poems about the royal wedding. I would have to be moved by the event.
Derek Walcott
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One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing.
Clive Barnes
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I did a lot of theatre when I started out. It was the Lyceum, the Citz, the Tron and the Traverse. I came to London and did the Royal Court, the National, 'King Lear' at the Manchester Royal Exchange. I did little bits of comedy, like 'Rab C Nesbitt,' but I wasn't predominantly about comedy.
Ashley Jensen
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I never liked the idea of the 'Royal Family' film. I always thought it was a rotten idea.
Princess Anne
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Authorised royal biographers are so straitjacketed, deferential, fawning, and unadventurous that they can only be after a knighthood. Or they're completely scurrilous and insolent, like Andrew Morton or Paul Burrell.
Peter Morgan
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Unlike the Kennedy dynasty, who always knew how to pay off people who might make trouble, the Windsors can't bring themselves to part with any royal trinkets.
Tina Brown
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There is something about Prince William and Prince Harry that brings real modernity to the British royal family. They are also very open, human, and kind, and this is what I have tried to capture in the pictures I have taken of them as well as in my pictures of Prince William and Catherine.
Mario Testino
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