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"The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me."
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"I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this biography is based."
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"While I have corrected agreed factual errors, I have not been inhibited from writing what I felt to be the truth about The Prince of Wales."
"The moment seemed right to me for a full and, if possible, authoritative portrait of the life and character of the Prince of Wales."
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