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.

Quote by Anthony Holden

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What was funny if you were there is that we were all immensely sophisticated people...

What was funny if you were there is that we were all immensely sophisticated people...

I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way...

I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way...

When the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were growing up, that was at it's height...

When the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were growing up, that was at it's height...

I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School...

I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School...

It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation.

It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation.

I decided he'd changed so much that a whole new book was required and that...

I decided he'd changed so much that a whole new book was required and that...

When the magistrate says 'That's not a good enough reason my man.' He said 'Excuse...

When the magistrate says 'That's not a good enough reason my man.' He said 'Excuse...

The Princess's so-called 'time and space speech' at the end of '93 about a year...

The Princess's so-called 'time and space speech' at the end of '93 about a year...

I don't accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for...

I don't accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for...

Among other things they picked out a detail that Charles had been offered the Governorship...

Among other things they picked out a detail that Charles had been offered the Governorship...

Well I'm a very similar age to Prince Charles. I'm a year older than him....

Well I'm a very similar age to Prince Charles. I'm a year older than him....

A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as...

A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as...

Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale...

Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale...

I personally felt that his ad hominen attacks on British architects were not the sort...

I personally felt that his ad hominen attacks on British architects were not the sort...

I think her friends were worried that the bulimia might come back, about some psychological...

I think her friends were worried that the bulimia might come back, about some psychological...

As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's...

As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's...

Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before...

Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before...

Thatcher came under pressure from right wing backbenchers to shut up the Prince of Wales...

Thatcher came under pressure from right wing backbenchers to shut up the Prince of Wales...

I've always said, since I got to know him and wrote about him, that he's...

I've always said, since I got to know him and wrote about him, that he's...

That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled...

That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled...