They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they’re riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world. Anthony Holden Read Quote
I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way street. Anthony Holden Read Quote
I went on a long trip through South America with Prince Charles where I was the only journalist there – a couple of photographers but no other writers. Anthony Holden Read Quote
I’ve always said, since I got to know him and wrote about him, that he’s the generation he least appeals to is his own and I think in many ways he was born middle-aged and that’s become apparent in recent years. Anthony Holden Read Quote
It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation. Anthony Holden Read Quote
Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons. Anthony Holden Read Quote
That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly libelous – I write biographies for a living as well as being a journalist – for a non fiction book to be called fiction from beginning to end. Anthony Holden Read Quote
Thatcher came under pressure from right wing backbenchers to shut up the Prince of Wales and there was a deal done between them where he did actually shut up in the end. Anthony Holden Read Quote
The Princess’s so-called ‘time and space speech’ at the end of ’93 about a year after the formal separation, looking back on it it’s called her retirement from public life but we’ve seen in fact it’s nothing of the kind. Anthony Holden Read Quote
I think her friends were worried that the bulimia might come back, about some psychological slide, and she was given breathing space to some extent by the media as much as she ever has been. Anthony Holden Read Quote
