There are a network of interbreeding bloodlines – what they call themselves the Illuminati which comes from the Illuminated Ones have come through history and as people began to reject overt in-your-face dictatorship they became the people who ran the system. It’s all about genetics to these people. They’re like horse-breeders. Diana basically called herself the Windsor’s brood mare. She was brought into the web merely to be the vehicle to give birth to William ... This is what the Illuminati bloodlines really are: they are vehicles for other-dimensional entities to manipulate this reality. David Icke
It’s no accident that the present Queen’s grandmother is a direct descendant of the sister of Count Dracul ... There’s a particular place in Belgium which is known as the Mother of Darkness Castle which is funnily located in the same area as that child murderer and satanic ring was based that came to light ... She told me and another such two have told me the same story ... Present in Britain at rituals at which Diana was being abused as part of these rituals in a mind-controlled state ... They mind-control the children of the aristocratic families ... Diana’s role was to be sacrificed in that place at that time ... Her other role was to add her genes to the Windsors’ ... What they needed was an infusion of human genes. David Icke
In the end you go into the areas of not human as we perceive human. They’re just another expression of life that is not human as we would call it. They don’t look like you and me. David Icke, interview World’s Greatest Conspiracy Theories
They are agencies of this network – Illuminati. David Icke
The British Monarchy have a long history of incestuous in-breeding. Ring of Power, 2008
3The same family started spreading around Europe, but when it came to marriage they always kept it ‘in the family’. The reason why royalty can only marry royalty is to preserve this wicked bloodline. This bloodline then established its rule in Great Britain. Windsor is not the real name of the ruling family of Great Britain. That name was recently added as a disguise to hide its true bloodline origin. Ruling from Britain for centuries this bloodline made sure it made the most of the New World Order. And slowly but surely established its global rule in Washington DC. The Arrivals, 2008
Monarchs give out their honours to unashamed murderers. Royal Babylon ***** 2012
The Sovereign has under a constitutional monarchy such as ours three rights – the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. Walter Bagehot, The English Constitution, 1867
Mrs Thatcher: There’s plenty of excess fat in the Monarchy.
Queen: You leave my sister out of this. Spitting Image s1e2, ITV 1984
The Monarchy is a labour-intensive industry. Harold Wilson
An uninspiring and alien court. H G Wells
The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they’re still making the corpses dance. Sue Townsend
The state is nothing but an instrument of oppression of one class by another – no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy. Friedrich Engels
When it comes to the British monarchy, I prefer to be seduced by an image than presented with a real person. It’s kind of a Warhol thing. Damien Hirst
I’ve spent a bit of time with the Prince of Wales, who I respect greatly. I’d give two cheers for the Monarchy. Sting
The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy. Karl Liebknecht
There was no doubt that in the early and mid-eighties that many of us in broadsheet newspapers felt that we still had a responsibility to try to protect the Royal Family or if you like protect the Monarchy from the assaults of the media. Max Hastings
What royal families are very good at doing is surviving and reinventing themselves. That’s true whether it’s a constitutional monarchy in Britain or an authoritarian monarchy. Robert Lacey
One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise, she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass for a lion. Thomas Paine, Common Sense
Kill the king but spare the man. Thomas Paine
It was pitiful for a person born in a wholesome free atmosphere to listen to their humble and hearty outpourings of loyalty toward their king and Church and nobility; as if they had any more occasion to love and honor king and Church and noble than a slave has to love and honor the lash, or a dog has to love and honor the stranger that kicks him! Why, dear me, ANY kind of royalty, howsoever modified, ANY kind of aristocracy, howsoever pruned, is rightly an insult; but if you are born and brought up under that sort of arrangement you probably never find it out for yourself, and don't believe it when somebody else tells you. It is enough to make a body ashamed of his race to think of the sort of froth that has always occupied its thrones without shadow of right or reason, and the seventh-rate people that have always figured as its aristocracies – a company of monarchs and nobles who, as a rule, would have achieved only poverty and obscurity if left, like their betters, to their own exertions ...
The truth was, the nation as a body was in the world for one object, and one only: to grovel before king and Church and noble; to slave for them, sweat blood for them, starve that they might be fed, work that they might play, drink misery to the dregs that they might be happy, go naked that they might wear silks and jewels, pay taxes that they might be spared from paying them, be familiar all their lives with the degrading language and postures of adulation that they might walk in pride and think themselves the gods of this world. And for all this, the thanks they got were cuffs and contempt; and so poor-spirited were they that they took even this sort of attention as an honor. Mark Twain
All monarchs I hate, and the thrones they sit on,
From the hector of France to the cully of Britain. John Wilmot, A Satyr on Charles II
A merry monarch, scandalous and poor. ibid.
Constitutional monarchies, through their structure, avoid those four republican perils: excessive rigidity, as in the American system, which is reduced to near paralysis whenever the President is seriously threatened with impeachment; political conflict and competition between the Head of State, Prime Minister and Ministers, a hallmark of the French Fifth Republic (an inherently unstable model curiously followed in a number of countries); extreme instability, which often haunted the Latin versions of Westminster; and regular resort to the rule of the street to solve conflict, which permeates those systems which live under the shadow of the French revolution. Professor David Flint, The Role of the Sovereign
3Americans also seem to believe that the monarchy is a kind of mediaeval hangover, encumbered by premodern notions of decorum; the reality is that the British monarchy, for good or ill, is a modern political institution – perhaps the first modern political institution. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker 29th September 1997
A monarch’s neck should always have a noose around it. It keeps him upright. Robert A Heinlein, cited The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, 1985
The insuperable objection to monarchy is that the king or queen is elevated, and respect is accorded, for no reason other than birth ... No one who believes either in the claims of merit or in the pursuit of equality can defend the system. Mervyn Jones, 1977
His fair large front and eye sublime declared
Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks
Round from his parted forelock manly hung
Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad. John Milton, Paradise Lost IV:300
A crown
Golden in show, is but a wreath of thorns.
Brings dangers, troubles, cares, and sleepless nights
To him who wears the regal diadem. John Milton, Paradise Regained II:458
Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown. The Hollow Crown: Henry IV part II ***** starring Jeremy Irons & Simon Russell Beale & Tom Hiddleston & Alun Armstrong & David Bamber & Julie Walters & Niamh Cusack & David Dawson & Michaelle Dockery et al, director Richard Eyre, King, BBC 2012
And fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns. William Shakespeare III Henry VI IV vii 63
Noble respect takes it in might, not merit. William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream V i 92
Never was monarch better feared and loved
Than is your majesty. There’s not, I think a subject
That sits in heart-grief and uneasiness
Under the sweet shade of your government. William Shakespeare, Henry V II ii 25-28, Cambridge to King Harry