Louise, Princess Royal and Duchess of Fife
- Prince Albert Frederick Arthur George of York, later George VI (1895–1952)
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Famous quotes containing the words princess, royal, duchess and/or fife:
“At the next town
the local princess was having a contest.
A common way for princesses to marry.
Fifty men had perished,
gargling the sea like soup.”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
“An Englishman, methinks,not to speak of other European nations,habitually regards himself merely as a constituent part of the English nation; he is a member of the royal regiment of Englishmen, and is proud of his company, as he has reason to be proud of it. But an Americanone who has made tolerable use of his opportunitiescares, comparatively, little about such things, and is advantageously nearer to the primitive and the ultimate condition of man in these respects.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“If everybody minded their own business, the Duchess said in a hoarse growl, the world would go round a deal faster than it does.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (18321898)
“Oh beat the drum slowly and play the fife lowly,
Play the Dead March as you carry me along;
Take me to the green valley, there lay the sod oer me,
For Im a young cowboy and I know Ive done wrong.”
—Unknown. As I Walked Out in the Streets of Laredo (l. 58)