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 writers.

I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello.

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 away, nice to see you.

I mean Buckingham Palace has never hired a professional public relations outfit let alone a Madison Avenue type and they would throw up their hands in horror at the very idea.

The winner is not the player who wins the most pots. The winner is the player who wins the most money.

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 shut up in the end.

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 of them.

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 Monarch?'

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 by the media as much as she ever has been.

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 feeling pretty claustrophobic.

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 his practice suffered financially for some years.

No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is not a hero, but because the valet is a valet.

We should not expect FRUIT from all trees, few gives SHADOW only

There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.

We create our own destiny by the way we do things. We have to take advantage of opportunities and be responsible for our choices.

The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.

When it is possible that people don't understand my English, I take my guitar and speak with my music!

Business men who are busy the whole day and immediately go to bed after supper, snoring like cows, are not likely to contribute anything to culture.

You can't prevent a possible future closeness between your upcoming child and one or more of their grandparents.

I have lots of desires - good body, nice skin, cute, beautiful, knows how to cook, concentrates on her work, a girl that's worth the respect.

Experience enables me to depose to the comfort and blessing that literature can prove in seasons of sickness and sorrow.