Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood

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

    “We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “You know, he wanted to shoot the Royal Family, abolish marriage, and put everybody who’d been to public school in a chain gang. Yeah, he was a idealist, your dad was.”
    —David Mercer, British screenwriter, and Karel Reisz. Mrs. Dell (Irene Handl)

    “And tell so readily, he knoweth well
    How ev’ry star by proper name to call?”
    —Bible: Hebrew Psalm CXLVII (Paraphrased by The Countess of Pembroke)