Hamish Bowles Quotes

I hated the royal wedding.

I'm obsessed with Kate Middleton. Obsessed. I loved the Royal Wedding. I was so cynical going into it, and pseudo-political about the whole thing, but as soon as I saw her, I was utterly charmed. I'm just completely enchanted by Kate and William.

Hats are the epitome of Englishness, and a royal wedding is the penultimate moment for a hat designer. I'm Irish, but I am a royalist and I believe in fantasy.

That to me was the most poignant part of Diana's wedding; as she was walking up the aisle and her eyes were going left to right, looking at people and smiling in the way that Diana did - and that diamond tiara glittering like mad. It was great.

If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it.

As Brits, we love a do, don't we? I adore our national celebrations. If I see a gold coach, you almost need to put me in a straitjacket, I get so excited.

I met Prince William at a musical festival and he let me know he was a fan of my music. But the invitation to sing at his wedding reception came completely out of the blue. The fact that Kate and William knew the words to my songs was very touching.

I am pleased that Prince Charles and Mrs Camilla Parker Bowles have decided to take this important step.

I love the royal family. I even got up in the middle of the night to watch Kate and William's wedding. And I never miss the Queen's speech on Christmas Day. I feel it's my duty as an English-born woman to watch.

I don't want to write poems about the royal wedding. I would have to be moved by the event.

William's marriage to Kate Middleton showed that social class, which seemed so important when Prince Charles was looking for a bride in the Eighties, is no longer an issue.

Today there's a change of guards in Denmark.

Falling in love was the easy part; planning a wedding - yikes!

If you look at the British royal family and take away the scandals and the goofy stuff that's going on, people love to have this king to look up to - the royals are like celebrities.

Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.

I'm the heir apparent to the heir presumptive.

In Miss Catherine Middleton we have the faintest, intoxicating glimmer of a New Age Cinderella story.

Getting married was the best thing I've ever done.

I believe in ceremony. I think ceremony is important, pomp and circumstance, tradition. I'm into those things.

Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.

Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.

An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

People like a bit of color and like a bit of pomp and circumstance and ceremony, and we’re rather better at it than most countries.

I am in love and it will be a White House Wedding.