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

If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.