There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.

In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.

I think I'm highly loveable.

Jeremy, are we going to play your games?

The royal family's existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major's rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members a constant boost to the republican cause. They're fine opening hospitals. It's when they open their mouths they get into trouble.

By asking the question 'Am I happy?,' and via the answer setting out what I mean by happiness, there is a political route that can be taken, by asking another question - 'Can politics deliver happiness, and should it try?'

I have always been driven. I have always believed in what I believe very deeply.