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Monarchists frequently declare that without the royal family, Britain would be 'nothing.' What a woeful lack of love for one's country such statements express.

The House of Commons, refused to receive the addresses of the colonies, when the matter was pending; besides, we hold our rights neither from them nor from the Lords.

I didn't do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.

You couldn't get less royal than me.

Public perception of the Westminster arena, with all its posturings, does little to engender a sense of voter belief.

I am very pro-royal. Britain without them would be a sadder place.

Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

The London I entered was a great bustling metropolitan city at war, an imperial power fighting to hold on to that empire. And the teeming colonial subjects of that empire did not, on the whole, want England to lose that war, but they also did not want the empire to emerge unchanged from it. This, for very many of us, was the hard dilemma.