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7 quotes by Robert Lacey

Robert Lacey (born 3 January 1944) is a British historian and biographer. He is the author of a number of bestselling biographies, including those of Henry Ford and Queen Elizabeth II, as well as works of popular history. Lacey's 1981 work The Kingdom and its 2009 follow-up Inside the Kingdom have now both been cited as standard study texts for the diplomatic community working inside the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. - David Brancaccio said: "In...
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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... →

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It seems to me that Sotheby's is very much like the British monarchy: an old and apparently very venerable institution which is in fact very... →

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

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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... →

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What royal families are very good at doing is surviving and reinventing themselves. That's true whether it's a constitutional monarchy in... →

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

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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.

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