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.

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.

It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation.

The good news is that in every deck of fifty-two cards there are 2,598,960 possible hands. The bad news is that you are only going to be dealt one of them.

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.

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.

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