Andrew Morton
Andrew Morton
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This book was done with her full cooperation. There is nothing underhanded about it,
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Her legacy and testament are the words in her book. I am very proud she chose me to tell her story, ... There is no point in pretending any more.
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Members of the Royal Family tend to, and Prince Edward particularly, tend to shade in and out of being ordinary people and royal people.
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Because she was terrorized. I mean she felt like committing suicide within three hours. She was actually considering whether to throw herself out of the 10th floor window into the Pentagon Mall below. She was intimidated.
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The 1980s turned them into an international family thanks to the arrival of Diana and this bull's generation of young Royals - Prince Andrew, The Duchess of York and so on. And what happened was that they were rather like a stock, rather like IBM. Their stock went up and up and up and when the balloon burst their stock went plummeting to the ground.
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I would argue that television and particularly the BBC were instrumental in puffing up the Royal Family to a level where they were inflated out of all, all proportion to their relevance on the national scene.
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For a time during the 1980s the Royal Family were not just the most influential family in Britain but probably in Europe and Prince Charles specifically was very much like a defacto Cabinet member and what he said actually had impact on public policy.
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Stories about Diana's fashions, about possible rows between Charles and Diana, these were meat and drink.
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They defined what was private and what was public and they would move it whenever they wished.