I have always been drawn to the Restoration period of Charles II. I have a soft spot for Charles Stuart, who was always loving and kind to the opposite sex. The members of his court were fascinating, and Barbara Castlemaine was one of the greatest courtesans in history.
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Related I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want... PRINCE WILLIAM Family is the most important thing in the world. PRINCESS DIANA You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ... CATHERINE THE GREAT With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you... KATE MIDDLETON As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend. KING SOLOMON I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th... ZARA PHILLIPS I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ... ZARA PHILLIPS My dad's not a big talker. ZARA PHILLIPS My dad can be pretty critical sometimes. ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment. ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.' ZARA PHILLIPS Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha... ZARA PHILLIPS It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu... ZARA PHILLIPS I'm an affectionate person. ZARA PHILLIPS People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me... ZARA PHILLIPS Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au... ZARA PHILLIPS Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about. ZARA PHILLIPS My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think about the media. ZARA PHILLIPS I love the sport and being competitive. ZARA PHILLIPS The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some ... ZARA PHILLIPS I hate having my picture taken. ZARA PHILLIPS Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows. ZARA PHILLIPS My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, real... ZARA PHILLIPS The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise tha... ZARA PHILLIPS In our sport you're very lucky to find a horse of a lifetime and I found mine relatively early. ... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don... ZARA PHILLIPS I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook... I'd ra... ZARA PHILLIPS I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one. ZARA PHILLIPS Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs. KING JAMES I My dear mamma is quite right when she says that we must lay down principles and not depart from them... MARIE ANTOINETTE I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascina... WALLIS SIMPSON PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' bea... WALLIS SIMPSON I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the w... WALLIS SIMPSON I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave. WALLIS SIMPSON I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me. WALLIS SIMPSON A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compe... WALLIS SIMPSON Never explain, never complain. WALLIS SIMPSON You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance. WALLIS SIMPSON I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers. WALLIS SIMPSON For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat. WALLIS SIMPSON Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting. WALLIS SIMPSON You can never be too rich or too thin. WALLIS SIMPSON A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. KING SOLOMON It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most... FREDERICK THE GREAT Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All... KATE MIDDLETON There is nothing new except what has been forgotten. MARIE ANTOINETTE I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all. MARIE ANTOINETTE I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It... QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist. QUEEN VICTORIA I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman. KING JAMES I I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse. CHARLES V I feel very, very lucky that George has got a little sister. KATE MIDDLETON It would be doing me great injustice to think that I have any feeling of indifference to my country;... MARIE ANTOINETTE I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble. AUGUSTUS A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in. FREDERICK THE GREAT Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road... HUSSEIN OF JORDAN It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life. QUEEN CHRISTINA There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something. PRINCE CHARLES We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes. QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box. PRINCESS DIANA What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy? PRINCESS DIANA The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult period... PRINCESS DIANA People think that at the end of the day a man is the only answer. Actually, a fulfilling job is bett... PRINCESS DIANA I don't want expensive gifts; I don't want to be bought. I have everything I want. I just wa... PRINCESS DIANA There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded. PRINCESS DIANA I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feel... PRINCESS DIANA Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves... PRINCESS DIANA The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved. PRINCESS DIANA When you are happy you can forgive a great deal. PRINCESS DIANA I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and ... PRINCESS DIANA If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love. PRINCESS DIANA Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can. PRINCESS DIANA HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven... PRINCESS DIANA Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be. PRINCESS DIANA I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am. PRINCESS DIANA Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good f... OWEN GLENDOWER And in that I cannot send unto you all my businesses in writing, I despatch these present bearers fu... OWEN GLENDOWER Most redoubted lord and right sovereign cousin, may the Almighty Lord have you in his keeping. OWEN GLENDOWER Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can. QUEEN VICTORIA For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse ... QUEEN VICTORIA An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful. QUEEN VICTORIA Everybody grows but me. QUEEN VICTORIA I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a ver... QUEEN VICTORIA Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through ot... QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.' QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society. QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription. QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN People sometimes think of 'queen' as a title that's shrouded with protocol and formality... QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN I think generally, in life, I try to always ensure that there are periodic moments where I do ventur... QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring... QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating pe... QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the... QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN We're programmed to believe that time is the enemy, that it takes away from us or that it dimini... QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN We always say Jordan is not rich in natural resources - we don't have oil or gas like some of ou... QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering... QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN
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Without you, O! the insufferable eyes
Of these poor Might-Have-B... WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY It matters not how strait the gate, how charged with punishment the
scroll. I am the master of my fa... WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY A late lark twitters from the quiet skies:
And from the west,
Where the sun, his day's work en... WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ... WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods ma... WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY A late lark twitters from the quiet skies: And from the west, Where the sun, his day's work en... WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY The nightingale has a lyre of gold,
The lark's is a clarion call,
And the blackbird plays but ... WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Men may scoff, and men may pray,
But they pay
Every pleasure with a pain. WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY The smoke ascends
In a rosy-and-golden haze. The spires
Shine and are changed. In the valley... WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Or ever the knightly years were gone
With the old world to the grave,
I was a king in Babylon
... WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY There are two men in Tolstoy. He is a mystic and he is also a realist. He is addicted to the practic... WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusio... WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chan... WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my f... WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the ma... WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to... WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature&... WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY What is the voice of strange command
Calling you still, as friend calls friend,
With love that... WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Failing yet gracious,
Slow pacing, soon homing,
A patriarch that strolls
Through the ten... WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Here is the ghost
Of a summer that lived for us,
Here is a promise
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