Top 83 Quotes & Sayings by Princess Michael of Kent
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
I don't think I've ever let myself go in public - I don't even know what it would mean. I mean, I let myself go on horseback by really galloping until, you know, I think I'm going to die.
I like to look nice but I don't care about fashion.
The people love to see happy young people and I think the older generation are a bit boring for most people.
Breakfast is served on my Herend china and I sit in an old armchair so I can read the papers.
Prince Philip is very intellectual. And Prince Charles is extremely well read.
Well we thought a church wedding would be possible. It certainly would be possible in the Catholic church because after all my first marriage had been annulled by Pope Paul VI. The problem arose in that Prince Michael could not have Catholic children.
I think I have only walked down the high street once in my married life.
I wanted to be a writer. I wanted experiences from Cape Town to right up in northern Mozambique.
What do you actually mean when you say human rights? Animals don't have rights in that sense.
I'm involved very actively with three conservation charities, because I'm passionate about animals.
People tend to panic at the mention of the word cancer, but I wasn't upset or frightened when the doctor told me.
I have different ways of saying things and doing things.
What is marriage anyway? How do you define it? I think, for me, it's being friends.
I'm a Catholic, you know, not very good news!
We need to protect animals, not go to court over them.
You can't be six feet tall and invisible.
I hold hands with all my friends. I don't think that's being intimate at all.
I have a pooper-scooper, a long-handled thing with a little shovel.
Look, I was taught, and I taught my children, if they ever came back from school saying 'Oh, so and so's father's got a helicopter, it's not fair,' I'd say, 'Fair? Whoever said life had to be fair? Is it fair that you live in Kensington Palace? That you've each got a pony? There are an awful lot of kids without a pony, you know.'
Don't you talk to me about members of the Royal Family, you know I am not going to talk about them. Diana's dead. Talking about dead people is history.
We've always sung. As I have become a grandmother and become older, of course you have less voice and you notice this in the bath.
Prince William is absolutely adorable.
I travelled on African buses.
The Queen is distant towards strangers. But with friends and family she can be very funny.
I even pretended years ago to be an African, a half-caste African, but because of my light eyes I did not get away with it, but I dyed my hair black.
Queen Elizabeth is reserved when she meets strangers - but with friends and family she can be very witty.
In these old houses, I mean, we're here in the 17th century part of the palace and I can really belt out a tune if I want, nobody's going to hear me at all.
I am not going to write 'Fifty Shades of Royal Purple.' Well I could, but I would be put in a beautifully decorated - that having been my profession before - room in the Tower.
Well, I love easyJet. It's the only direct route to Biarritz. We always fly tourist-class anyway in Europe. For long-haul we go club.
Kissing babies and cutting ribbons I tell you, it bores me rigid.
There is this place called the Tower of London and I think if I wrote about any Royal figure as recent as the 20th Century I might end up there!
I've got a better background than anyone else who married into the royal family since the war, excepting Prince Philip.
Don't forget I'm not English. English people maybe don't behave like we Europeans do.
I don't know whether or not it's good that we embrace all religions. We are no longer Christians - nevertheless a knowledge of God should still be important for Europeans.
Incidents happen that mean more mail. The birth of children, obviously, a sudden religious marriage, the tragic loss of a cat - I had over 2,000 letters when my cat disappeared.
I realized afterwards that Mountbatten thought I'd be good for my husband. He was our Cyrano de Bergerac.
You know, I love to sing and I don't find it difficult to read music, but no, I would never have been talented enough to be a singer and also it's a very, very demanding thing to be.
I've always covered up in the sun and it seemed so ridiculous that I developed cancer despite taking precautions.
There's a lovely character in 'Under Milk Wood' called Mrs. Ogmore Pritchard and she's incredibly tidy and clean. She really is unbearably tidy and clean! And I terrorize my husband when he comes in sometimes from shooting and there's awful dead birds all over the hall that he calls me Mrs. Ogmore Pritchard.
This cancer isn't life-threatening so I consider myself to be very fortunate. In the course of my charity work I meet so many people who have suffered terribly - what I've got really isn't an issue.
I have great lineage.
Charity work is part of my life. I do it, I expect to do it, but it is not a career.
And sometimes people say, 'Oh well, we all descend from Adam and Eve.' But do you descend from Charlemagne directly? Do you descend from Saint King Louis IX? I do.
I cook. Well, if I'm giving a dinner party I get in help.
The English take the breeding of their horses and dogs more seriously than they do their children. God forbid that the wrong drop of blood should get into their labrador. But their children marry everywhere.
You have to ask yourself seriously: does this government really want to do things or is it more interested in class struggle?
Of course I miss the big gardens we had at our country house but it became very expensive to run we couldn't afford it.
France's Charles VI was subject to fits of insanity and unable to rule.
Under Milk Wood' was given to me when I was quite young, in Sydney. I didn't even know what Wales was, let alone anything about Dylan Thomas. It taught me the beginning of my love of English literature.
We've cut back dramatically. I mean we never go out to dinner unless we go to somebody's house. We never go to restaurants. That's too extravagant.
Our children are very much remaining Anglican, and I very much wish to remain and shall remain a Catholic.
We have a very strong marriage. We've been together for going on 32 years. I think we have the strongest marriage I know.
I am not very high-maintenance when it comes to beauty.
Yes I love cats, I love dogs, I love all animals - anything on four legs with fur on more or less qualifies.
My mother, when I married, said you must have separate bathrooms and separate bedrooms. That was the only sure way of keeping a marriage alive because it was an invitation as opposed to just being there and that makes it more romantic.
Back in the days of the colonies, there were rules that were very good.
Like probably many people of little education who find themselves, like pop stars or film stars, suddenly lauded by the whole world, it is very difficult if you have not had a mother bringing you up who was quite stern and strict.
I have been together with my husband for 33 years. Romance can still be there if you don't see each other brushing your teeth. There's something very nasty about brushing your teeth and then all that flossing.
I don't have the figure for fashion and I've never heard anyone say I was a fashion icon.
Charities who support animal rights are actually asking people to show their obligation by doing fundraising or similar.
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