I can't think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I've had than that everyone should be jolly at my funeral.

In 1966 I became president of the British Computer Society.

Actually, I vote Labour, but my butler's a Tory.

Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children.

No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew.

It is a curious thing, but I have been right in everything I have done and said in my life.

I was so keen to get back to sea. I was rattled.