Occupation: Writer Birth: May 22, 1947
When the magistrate says 'That's not a good enough reason my man.' He said 'Excuse me, could I ask you? Have you taken an oath of allegiance to the M….
I don't accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. The monarchy's responsible for the….
Thatcher came under pressure from right wing backbenchers to shut up the Prince of Wales and there was a deal done between them where he did actually….
I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way street..
What was funny if you were there is that we were all immensely sophisticated people who knew exactly what she was going to say and we're chatting awa….
He did once say the time to worry is when they stop writing about you but again I think that was pretty token of the coverage was very respectful, he….
I think her friends were worried that the bulimia might come back, about some psychological slide, and she was given breathing space to some extent b….
Among other things they picked out a detail that Charles had been offered the Governorship of Hong Kong in its dying days by Thatcher in return for s….
As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's astonishing how the climate has changed in the last five year….
I went on a long trip through South America with Prince Charles where I was the only journalist there - a couple of photographers but no other writer….
What it was at the time was literally a plea for, to get the pressure off for a while, to give her space to breathe. She was very unhappy. She was fe….
I first got to know Charles in the late seventies when I wrote an article and then a book about him and I think at the time he came across as quite a….
Consider developing your whole self with the same raw focus and intensity that you develop a particular skill set. Get focused. Go out, have adventur….
Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in pub….
Well I'm a very similar age to Prince Charles. I'm a year older than him. I was at university at the same time as him. I think in the sixties, like a….
The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but….
Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill, affection….
A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by tabloid for a c….
The good news is that in every deck of fifty-two cards there are 2,598,960 possible hands. The bad news is that you are only going to be dealt one o….
They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside….
If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it i….