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- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 couple of weeks, lots of insults in the press, in the columns - this man should be put in the tower and so on.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 years.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
But, of course, she didn't mean that she was going to retire from public life and only when the Queen removed her HRH some years later did she actually drop a hundred charities and just kept five.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn't have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
I decided he'd changed so much that a whole new book was required and that book actually I can say so was the first to say that the marriage was in trouble and the Prince didn't like at all and my book was being serialized in the Sunday Times over five weeks.
- Argument
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 monarchy's recent troubles. To blame the press is the old thing of blaming the messenger for the message.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 appealing, it was probably the height of his popularity.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I personally felt that his ad hominen attacks on British architects were not the sort of thing a Prince of Wales should be doing because, apart from anything else, they put various people out of business.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Press
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way street.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always said, since I got to know him and wrote about him, that he's the generation he least appeals to is his own and I think in many ways he was born middle-aged and that's become apparent in recent years.
- Pretty
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation.
- Edward
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a problem for him because he's got - like Edward VII had - nearly all his lifetime to wait until he becomes Monarch. What is he going to do with it? So he wants to do something positive but he always courts those dangers.
- Dramatic Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly libelous - I write biographies for a living as well as being a journalist - for a non fiction book to be called fiction from beginning to end.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Princess's so-called 'time and space speech' at the end of '93 about a year after the formal separation, looking back on it it's called her retirement from public life but we've seen in fact it's nothing of the kind.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
We could have a political movement going if it had been properly organized but the Monarchy's done itself enormous damage possibly beyond the point of long-term recovery.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 all the Royals, he really had very little impact on my life at all and he seemed, if anything a lot older in his attitudes.
- Archbishop
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
What it means is that some of Charles' press secretaries have been better than others as some of the Queen's press secretaries have been better than others.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?'
- Cemented
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- Nov 07, 2020