“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.” PeopleWorldMayRealLiteratureLosesOpinionOfficeIntelligentTrackServantPleasantReal WorldStatus QuoPublic OpinionPalacesDiplomatsCivil Servants Author:Anthony Holden
“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.” PeopleThinkingWritingHas BeensReasonLiteratureOpinionTakenLike MeDramaticPublic OpinionPrintedWrong ReasonsDramatic Change Author:Anthony Holden
“Among other things they picked out a detail that Charles had been offered the Governorship of Hong Kong in its dying days by Thatcher in return for shutting up about the inner cities. He quite rightly in my view led the paper on this story.” StoriesLiteratureViewsCitiesDyingReturnPaperDetailsHong KongInner City Author:Anthony Holden
“As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's astonishing how the climate has changed in the last five years.” WritingYearsLastsLiteratureFiveSubjectsChangedTwentiesClimateFive YearsAstonishingLast Five Years Author:Anthony Holden
“He did once say the time to worry is when they stop writing about you but again I think that was pretty token of the coverage was very respectful, he rather resented the intrusions on his private life, but that was about it.” ThinkingWritingLiteratureWorryPrivate LifeRespectfulCoverageTokensIntrusion Author:Anthony Holden
“I first got to know Charles in the late seventies when I wrote an article and then a book about him and I think at the time he came across as quite appealing, it was probably the height of his popularity.” ThinkingKnowsFirstsBookLiteratureLateHeightArticlesPopularitySeventies Author:Anthony Holden
“I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello.” MomentsSchoolRememberLiteratureTeacherHorrorGrammarOld SchoolMelbourneGrammar SchoolOld MusicMusic Teacher Author:Anthony Holden
“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.” ThinkingHas BeensMightLiteratureGivenSpaceMediaPsychologicalWorriedBreathingSlidesBulimiaBreathing Space Author:Anthony Holden
“I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way street.” ThinkingWayTwoLiteratureStreetsRelationPressesMonarchyTwo WaysTwo Way Street Author:Anthony Holden
“It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation.” CoursesLiteratureReputationDelightfulInsulting Author:Anthony Holden
“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.” EndsDoneLiteratureDealsPressureWingsShut UpRight WingWalesUnder PressureBackbenchers Author:Anthony Holden
“The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but his practice suffered financially for some years.” YearsLiteraturePracticeDesignBuiltCompetitionArchitectPeterMonstrous Author:Anthony Holden
“Well I'm a very similar age to Prince Charles. I'm a year older than him. I was at university at the same time as him. I think in the sixties, like all the Royals, he really had very little impact on my life at all and he seemed, if anything a lot older in his attitudes.” IfsThinkingYearsWellsLittlesAgeLiteratureAttitudeImpactUniversitySixtyRoyalCharles I Author:Anthony Holden
“What was funny if you were there is that we were all immensely sophisticated people who knew exactly what she was going to say and we're chatting away, nice to see you.” PeopleIfsLiteratureNiceSophisticatedChattingNice To See You Author:Anthony Holden
“When the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were growing up, that was at it's height and the War cemented that with photographs of the Royal Family having breakfast together and so on, by pinning their reputation so firmly on that particular issue.” WarTogetherYoungLiteratureGrowing UpIssuesGrowingParticularPhotographReputationHeightBreakfastPrincessRoyalRoyal Family Author:Anthony Holden
“While the 1980 book was being serialized in the Sunday Times, Charles attacked it through the Observer.” BookLiteratureSundayObservers Author:Anthony Holden
“Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill, affection and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time.” WellsLiteratureHugeInstitutionsInvestmentAffectionTalesFairyFairy TaleWeddingImpressGoodwillWedding DayCanterbury Author:Anthony Holden
“If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true.” IfsMayLiteratureLossSourceBeing TrueMore TimeFilesAnecdotesHearing Loss Author:Anthony Holden
“What it was at the time was literally a plea for, to get the pressure off for a while, to give her space to breathe. She was very unhappy. She was feeling pretty claustrophobic.” GivingFeelingsLiteratureSpaceAtheismPressureBreatheUnhappyFeeling Pretty Author:Anthony Holden
