52 Quotes by Anthony Holden

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.

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.

Girl never see to know from me Who was the fairest of them all. What wouldst thou say if I asked thee: Where is the snow we watched last Fall?

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.

When the magistrate says ‘That’s not a good enough reason my man.’ He said ‘Excuse me, could I ask you? Have you taken an oath of allegiance to the Monarch?’

To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.

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.