“It's an invitation from one head of state to another. Of course this means her majesty's ministers (in the shape of Prime Minister Tony Blair) and the Foreign Office would have been consulted.”
“Her parents both were very conscious that they wanted her to have as easy a time of it as possible, because they knew what was going to happen in her adulthood.”
“There's no question that it's a difficult job to do, ... But I think that from the moment she made that decision that she was going to serve the country and the people, that is all that she really wanted to do for the rest of her entire life.”
“There'll be constant discussions when Prince Charles flies back from Oman, where he has been on an official visit, and I think they are going to have to come out with a better strategy than the one with which they came out already.”
“I personally think that was a mistake. If it was such a serious allegation -- which it is -- they should have simply waited to see if the newspaper would actually print those allegations and then take legal action.”