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.

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.

I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way street.

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.

While the 1980 book was being serialized in the Sunday Times, Charles attacked it through the Observer.

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.