Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Lacey

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British historian Robert Lacey.

Last updated on September 19, 2024.

Robert Lacey is a British historian and biographer. He is the author of a number of best-selling biographies, including those of Henry Ford, Eileen Ford, Queen Elizabeth II and other royals, as well as several other works of popular history. He is best known for his work as historian to the Netflix award-winning drama The Crown. Lacey was educated at Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he studied history.

British - Historian | Born: January 3, 1944

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My whole life as a grammar-school boy, getting to Cambridge University and working on the 'London Sunday Times' has been very aspirational.

Robert Lacey

I lived in Saudi Arabia in the late 1970s. It was, for a Westerner, pretty idyllic. There were the religious police; there were the rules; there were the prayer times. But it was as if we were existing in two separate universes. The Westerners were just allowed to get on with their way of life.

Robert Lacey

It's true; I'm fascinated by elite groups.

Robert Lacey

Of all the varieties of modern pollution, noise is the most insidious.

Robert Lacey

Fear generates anger, and fear generates violence, and those were part of what built the Saudi state.

Robert Lacey

Saud bin Abd al-Aziz was the moon-faced, shortsighted, bespectacled son of the old founder of Saudi Arabia, who'd always been his father's protege but had never quite lived up to everything that his father had.

Robert Lacey

The Billy Carter of the British monarchy.

Robert Lacey

There is a convention that the principal heir should be kept away from real danger. As the 'spare' rather than the heir, Harry is expected by the royal family to take the ultimate military risks.

Robert Lacey

Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Lacey

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