Now You Know Royalty. Doug Lennox

be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.” — Reflections on the French Revolution, Burke

      “The King never dies.” — Blackstone, book 1.17

      “Is it not passing brave to be a king

      And ride in triumph through Persepolis?” — Conquests of Tamburlaine , Marlowe, book 1

      “Where the word of a king is, there is power.” — Ecclesiastes, 8.4, the Bible

      “A substitute shines brightly as a king

      Until a King be by.” — Merchant of Venice, act 5, scene 1, Shakespeare

      “The King must not be under man but under God and under the law, because the law makes the King.” — Bracton

      “Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the King.” — Epistle of St. James, 1.17, the Bible

      “The King is the centre of the majesty of the whole community.” — Blackstone

      “I found that monarchy was the best government for the poor to live in, and commonwealths for the rich.” — The Vicar of Wakefield, Goldsmith

      “Not all the water in the rough rude sea

      Can wash the balm from an anointed king;

      The breath of worldly men cannot depose

      The deputy elected by the Lord.” — Richard II, act 3, scene 2, Shakespeare

      “’Twixt kings and tyrants there’s this difference known; Kings seek their subjects’ good; tyrants their own.” — Kings and Tyrants, Herrick

      “Ultimately, mercy is the surest sign by which the world may distinguish a true king.” — Corneille

      “The Queen’s government must be carried on.” — Duke of Wellington

      “What is a King — a man condemn’d to bear

      The public burden of the nation’s care.” — Solomon, book 3, Prior

      “Who made thee a prince and a judge over us?”

      — Exodus, 2.14, the Bible

      “Live pure, speak true, right wrong, follow the King —

      Else, wherefore born?” — Gareth and Lynette, 1.117, Tennyson

      “The mind is free, whate’er afflict the man,

      A King's a King, do fortune what she can.” — The Barrons’ Wars, Michael Drayton

      “There is only one species of interest felt for dethroned monarchs — how they bear their misfortunes.” — Charles Lever

      “There’s such divinity doth hedge a King,

      That treason can but peep to what it would.” — Hamlet, act 4, scene 5, Shakespeare

      “I believe that constitutional monarchy is the best defence of democracy.” — Yehudi Menuhin

      In the Confederation Debates it was resolved that the government of the new country would be carried on “by the Sovereign in person or by her representative duly authorized.”

       What does the inscription on the Peace Tower in Ottawa mean?

      The motto of the Royal Arms of Canada, A mari usque ad mare (“From sea to sea”) is taken from the 72nd Psalm — “And he [the King] shall have dominion from sea to sea and from the river unto the ends of the earth.” It is this psalm from which the name “Dominion of Canada” is also drawn. The beginning of the psalm is “Give the King thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the King’s son.” The cornerstone of the Peace Tower was laid in 1919 by Prince Edward, Prince of Wales, the son of King George V, and it is the first part of the 72nd Psalm that is carved on the Peace Tower.

       Philosophers of Kingship

Plato	“The Philosopher as King,” Books V to VII of The Republic (Athens, fourth century B.C.)
Aristotle	Politics (Greece, fourth century B.C.)
Henry de Bracton	Treatise on the Laws of England (England, before 1268)
St. Thomas Aquinas	On Kingship, To The King Of Cyprus (Italy, before 1274)
Niccolò Machiavelli	The Prince (Florence, 1514)
Claude de Seyssel	La Grant Monarchie de France (Turin, 1519)
Sir John Fortescue	In Praise of the Laws of England and Monarchia
John Aylmer	An Harborowe for Faithfull and Trewe Subjects
James I	Trew Law of Free Monarchies (Scotland, 1598)
Thomas Hobbes	Leviathan (England, 1651)
François de La Mothe-Fénelon	Les Aventures de Télémaque and Table de Chaulnes
Sir Robert Filmer	Patriarcha (England, 1680)
John Locke	Treatises of Government (England, 1690)
Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke	The Idea of a Patriot King (Britain, 1738)
Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu	Spirit of the Laws (France, 1748)
Edmund Burke	Reflections on the French Revolution (Britain, 1790)
Louis, Viscount de Bonald	Theory of Political and Religious Power in Civil Society (France, 1796)
Joseph, Count de Miastre	Essay on the Generating Principle of Political Constitutions (Sardinia, 1810)
Walter Bagehot	The English Constitution (British Empire, 1867)
John Farthing	Freedom Wears a Crown (Canada, 1957)

royal nomenclature

       What is the difference between the terms imperial and royal ?

      Though the word royal is often used to refer to all monarchs, it correctly only refers to a monarch of a kingdom and his or her family. Thus an empire has an imperial family (Japan), a kingdom (or dominion) has a royal family (United Kingdom, Canada), and a principality has a princely family (Monaco).

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