I love meeting people and helping them.

Whoever is in the distress can call me. I will come running wherever they are.

Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.

I remember saying to my husband, ''Why? Why have you got this lady around?'' And he said, ''Well, I refuse to be the Prince of Wales who never had a mistress.''

I am all about caring. I have always been like that.

The press is ferocious. It forgives nothing, it only hunts for mistakes . . . In my position anyone sane would have left a long time ago.

Don't call me an icon. I'm just a mother trying to help.