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It's a problem for him because he's got - like Edward VII had - nearly all his lifetime to wait until he becomes Monarch. What is he going to do with it? So he wants to do something positive but he always courts those dangers.

~Anthony Holden

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Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons.

~Anthony Holden

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That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly libelous - I write biographies for a living as well as being a journalist - for a non fiction book to be called fiction from beginning to end.

~Anthony Holden

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Thatcher came under pressure from right wing backbenchers to shut up the Prince of Wales and there was a deal done between them where he did actually shut up in the end.

~Anthony Holden

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The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but his practice suffered financially for some years.

~Anthony Holden

Topics: Architect Built Competition Design Did Financially Get Had His Merely Monstrous Never Peter Practice Public Some Suffered Which Who Won Years

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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.

~Anthony Holden

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We could have a political movement going if it had been properly organized but the Monarchy's done itself enormous damage possibly beyond the point of long-term recovery.

~Anthony Holden

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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.

~Anthony Holden

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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.

~Anthony Holden

Topics: Affection Fairy Fairy Tale Goodwill Huge Impress Indeed Institution Investment Money Public Success Tale Time Wedding Well Words

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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.

~Anthony Holden

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Journalist

Born: May 22nd, 1947

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