Andrew Morton Quotations

I would argue that television and particularly the BBC were instrumental in puffing up the Royal Family to a level where they were inflated out of all, all proportion to their relevance on the national scene.

For a time during the 1980s the Royal Family were not just the most influential family in Britain but probably in Europe and Prince Charles specifically was very much like a defacto Cabinet member and what he said actually had impact on public policy.

Stories about Diana's fashions, about possible rows between Charles and Diana, these were meat and drink.

They defined what was private and what was public and they would move it whenever they wished.

He's a TV producer, a theatrical impresario, and he wants to be treated as Mr. Windsor but when the going gets rough he wants to be treated like a member of the Royal Family.

She detests him for what he has done to her mother.

If they were really to want to understand their mother, they would want to read what she had to say.

I don't know what people have been doing lately?nothing has come my way.

Because she was terrorized. I mean she felt like committing suicide within three hours. She was actually considering whether to throw herself out of the 10th floor window into the Pentagon Mall below. She was intimidated.

Her legacy and testament are the words in her book. I am very proud she chose me to tell her story, ... There is no point in pretending any more.

The 1980s turned them into an international family thanks to the arrival of Diana and this bull's generation of young Royals - Prince Andrew, The Duchess of York and so on. And what happened was that they were rather like a stock, rather like IBM. Their stock went up and up and up and when the balloon burst their stock went plummeting to the ground.

Members of the Royal Family tend to, and Prince Edward particularly, tend to shade in and out of being ordinary people and royal people.

So the whole thrust of any kind of reportage of the Royal Family, certainly in the tabloids, it may have been intrusive in terms of the way you define it, but it was certainly very laudatory and it really maintained and expanded the fairy tale.

This book was done with her full cooperation. There is nothing underhanded about it,

It's enabling infrastructure which will permit further feature work in the future. I'd need to get a clearer idea of where it's all headed before supporting the addition of such a thing.

In many respects, this is just the start.