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"What it means is that some of Charles' press secretaries have been better than others as some of the Queen's press secretaries have been better than others."
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"The press briefing today I believe has lost much of its usefulness."
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"The press Yazoo were receiving were focused on the voice, This obviously was about trends."
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"With the press there is no "off the record.""
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"I do not speak frequently or otherwise to the press."
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"We were disliked by the press in the early days because they couldn't put their finger on us, and that was the case with Zeppelin as well."
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"I have a much better relationship with the press than I did, I think because I stood my ground."
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"I said I did not know enough about UNICEF to handle a press conference and she said they would not want to talk about it they would only want to talk about films."
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"We had so much press, and then they get bored... I think we've done well to keep going."
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"I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press."
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"The press is like a big bass, you just stick a hook in their mouth and they'll take it."
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"Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn't have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact."
Architecture

"Well I'm a very similar age to Prince Charles. I'm a year older than him. I was at university at the same time as him. I think in the sixties, like all the Royals, he really had very little impact on my life at all and he seemed, if anything a lot older in his attitudes."
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"A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by tabloid for a couple of weeks, lots of insults in the press, in the columns - this man should be put in the tower and so on."
Being

"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."
People

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

"Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill, affection and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time."
Money

"I decided he'd changed so much that a whole new book was required and that book actually I can say so was the first to say that the marriage was in trouble and the Prince didn't like at all and my book was being serialized in the Sunday Times over five weeks."
Marriage

"It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation."
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"I mean Buckingham Palace has never hired a professional public relations outfit let alone a Madison Avenue type and they would throw up their hands in horror at the very idea."
Creativity

"I first got to know Charles in the late seventies when I wrote an article and then a book about him and I think at the time he came across as quite appealing, it was probably the height of his popularity."
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