She is incredibly fit, but we remind staff that she's not just the monarch, but our mother.

The Queen's intelligence network is a hell of a lot better than anyone's in this palace. Bar none. She knows everything. I don't know how she does it. And she sees everything.

I could have worse tags than 'Airmiles Andy' - although I don't know what they are.

When the question arose whether I, as a member of the royal family, should take part in active combat in the Falklands, there was no question in her mind, and it only took her two days to sort the issue.

It would not be a bad idea if bankers were to go and sit occasionally with politicians in their political surgeries, where they might get a sense of the injustice that some of the community feel about the banks.

She is incredibly fit, but we remind staff that she's not just the monarch, but our mother.

The Royal Family have always had an interest in a number of different areas of society. We are a part of society.