Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood

Famous quotes containing the words princess, royal and/or countess:

    “How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!”
    —Bible: Hebrew Lamentations 1:1.

    Said of Jerusalem.

    “All hail! the pow’r of Jesus’ Name;
    Let angels prostrate fall;
    Bring forth the Royal Diadem,
    To crown Him Lord of all.”
    —Edward Perronet (1726–1792)

    “Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty—excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable—should persist after the beauty was gone.”
    —Mary A. [Elizabeth, Countess Von] Arnim (1866–1941)