Europe
- Kingdom of Belgium - Albert II, King of the Belgians
- Kingdom of Denmark - Margrethe II of Denmark
- Principality of Liechtenstein - Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein
- Grand Duchy of Luxembourg - Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
- Principality of Monaco - Albert II, Prince of Monaco
- Kingdom of the Netherlands - Beatrix of the Netherlands
- Kingdom of Norway - Harald V of Norway
- Kingdom of Spain - Juan Carlos I of Spain
- Kingdom of Sweden - Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
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Famous quotes containing the word europe:
“The city is recruited from the country. In the year 1805, it is said, every legitimate monarch in Europe was imbecile. The city would have died out, rotted, and exploded, long ago, but that it was reinforced from the fields. It is only country which came to town day before yesterday, that is city and court today.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“All the terrors of the French Republic, which held Austria in awe, were unable to command her diplomacy. But Napoleon sent to Vienna M. de Narbonne, one of the old noblesse, with the morals, manners, and name of that interest, saying, that it was indispensable to send to the old aristocracy of Europe men of the same connection, which, in fact, constitutes a sort of free- masonry. M. de Narbonne, in less than a fortnight, penetrated all the secrets of the imperial cabinet.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Positively I sit here, and look at Europe sink, first one deck disappearing, then another, and the whole ship slowly plunging bow-down into the abyss; until the nightmare gets to be howling. The Roman Empire was a trifle to it.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)