[The trickiest part of his assignment is maintaining a dignified aura while stooping to snoop. So he invokes the royals' most loose-lipped employees. And he brings some wit to this mission. The valet who wrote about Prince Philip, he says, delivered] a memoir of his happy years as the prince's trouser-presser. ... Your trouble was that you fell in love with Diana because Judy Garland was dead. |
because I know that this book is nothing more than a tribute to their mother. |
I can't believe how much weight I've lost - my stomach is almost concave. |
I felt at the time of the princess's death there was a conspiracy to change the course of history and to erase certain parts of the princess's life from it, |
I know that the princess would approve of what I'm doing, and that what I'm doing is appropriate, |
I once walked in on the queen wearing her crown and pink, fluffy slippers. |
I pray you're getting treatment for your mental problems. |
I was in a situation where this destroyed me. I didn't like what I had become. I only started coming back into myself when I realized this wasn't all my fault. |
I've been to hell and back so nothing that happens in the jungle can be worse. |
I've got more clothes than my wife. |
If I could have one wish, it would be to put the clock back and for everything to be like it was before she died. |
It's out there somewhere. |
It's so it's done discreetly. I've been told to take some items, |
My only intention in writing this book was to defend the princess and stand in her corner, |
She looked on me as an emotional washing machine. |