It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job other than at one's best ability.

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

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

Even that crazy lunatic, my aunt the Empress, wa absolutely sweet and charming.

As a military man who has given half a century of active service I say in all sincerity that the nuclear arms race has no military purpose. Wars cannot be fought with nuclear weapons. Their existence only adds to our perils because of the illusions they have generated. There are powerful voices around the world who still give credence to the old Roman precept - if you desire peace, prepare for war. This is absolute nuclear nonsense.

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

Men o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century.