Andrew Morton
Andrew Morton
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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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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.