I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the wrong light to the entire world because they will say that I could have prevented it.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.

I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.

A marriage, even one that goes awry, generates claims and needs that persist like an afterglow long after the emotional fire is burned out.

Never explain, never complain.

There can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage - only a slow and painful unravelling of a tangled skein of threads too stubborn to be broken.