ached for throne proximity

"He could twist a nail into a cork-screw."
- On Lord Louis Mountbatten [1900-1979]

Power restricted

Due to Oliver Cromwell[ [1599-1658] and the Glorious Revolution [1688-89], where the people and Parliament now forever reigned supreme, William [1650-1702] and Mary [1662-1694] became the first in a line extending to this day of monarchial figure heads with limited powers to rule Britannia. 

aquatic tart

her hair was so long she could sit on it

- On Anne Boleyn 

love for sale

"I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they're doing the same thing."
- Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

role

"Advise, encourage, warn."
- David Johnston, Canada's Governor General

On average The Queen appoints 70 Knights a year, but only 15 Dames.

freedom advocate

A hereditary monarch, observed Thomas Paine, is as absurd a proposition as a hereditary doctor or mathematician.

Mnemonic verse of English monarchs

First William the Norman
Then William his son
Henry, Stephen, Henry
Then Richard and John
Next Henry the Third
Edwards One, Two and Three
And again after Richard
Three Henrys we see
Two Edwards, Third Richard
If rightly I guess
Two Henrys, Sixth Edward
Queen Mary, Queen Bess
Then Jamie the Scotsman
Then Charles whom they slew
Yet received after Cromwell
Another Charles too.
Next James the Second
Acceded the Throne
Then good William and Mary
Together came on
Not till Anne, Georges Four
And Fourth William all passed
Came the reign of Victoria
Whose longest did last
Then Edward the Peacemaker
(He was her son)
The fifth of the Georges
Was next in the run
Edward the Eighth
Gave the Crown to his brother
Now God's sent Elizabeth
All of us love her.

Source here.

darkest work

Jacques Louis David, The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons, 1789

Brutus had his sons executed for plotting to bring back the monarchy conspiring against Roman freedom.

An earlier reference to David here.