I found myself being more and more involved with people who were rejected by society - with drug addicts, alcoholism, battered this, battered that - and I found an affinity there.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people s hands, people used to be shocked because they d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

I decline to go fox hunting.

From the first day I joined that family, nothing could be done naturally any more.

My husband asked for the separation and I supported it. We had struggled to keep it going, but obviously we'd both run out of steam.

As for becoming queen, it was never on the forefront of my mind when I married my husband. It was a long way off, that thought.

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