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Quotes by Biographer
"The facts of a person's life will, like murder, come out."
47
"Television, despite its enormous presence, turns out to have added pitifully few lines to the communal memory."
40
"He's a TV producer, a theatrical impresario, and he wants to be treated as Mr. Windsor but when the going gets rough he wants to be treated like a member of the Royal Family."
37
"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."
35
"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."
34
"They defined what was private and what was public and they would move it whenever they wished."
30
"Destiny is something men select; women achieve it only by default or stupendous suffering."
29
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