My whole life as a grammar-school boy, getting to Cambridge University and working on the 'London Sunday Times' has been very aspirational.
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 protege bu… - Robert Lacey
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 protege bu…
- Robert Lacey
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… - Robert Lacey
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…
There is a convention that the principal heir should be kept away from real danger. As the 'spare' rather than the heir, Harry is expected by the roy… - Robert Lacey
There is a convention that the principal heir should be kept away from real danger. As the 'spare' rather than the heir, Harry is expected by the roy…
It's true; I'm fascinated by elite groups. - Robert Lacey
It's true; I'm fascinated by elite groups.
Fear generates anger, and fear generates violence, and those were part of what built the Saudi state. - Robert Lacey
Fear generates anger, and fear generates violence, and those were part of what built the Saudi state.
The Billy Carter of the British monarchy. - Robert Lacey
The Billy Carter of the British monarchy.
My whole life as a grammar-school boy, getting to Cambridge University and working on the 'London Sunday Times' has been very aspirational. - Robert Lacey
Of all the varieties of modern pollution, noise is the most insidious. - Robert Lacey
Of all the varieties of modern pollution, noise is the most insidious.
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