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I have always looked after my health. I have a personal trainer and I’m usually hunting-fit.
Prince Philip is very intellectual. And Prince Charles is extremely well read.
I even pretended years ago to be an African, a half-caste African, but because of my light eyes I did not get away with it, but I dyed my hair black.
I wanted to be a writer. I wanted experiences from Cape Town to right up in northern Mozambique.
I’m a Catholic, you know, not very good news!
Charities who support animal rights are actually asking people to show their obligation by doing fundraising or similar.
It seemed absurd. But the fact is that the establishment in this country still does not open its arms to Catholics.
And sometimes people say, ‘Oh well, we all descend from Adam and Eve.’ But do you descend from Charlemagne directly? Do you descend from Saint King Louis IX? I do.
Charity work is part of my life. I do it, I expect to do it, but it is not a career.
I think I have only walked down the high street once in my married life.
I am trying to reach people who would not normally head for the history section of a book shop or a library to try to show that history would be as interesting and thrilling as a novel.
I hold hands with all my friends. I don’t think that’s being intimate at all.
Oh, I had two nannies. God, yes.
Of course I miss the big gardens we had at our country house but it became very expensive to run we couldn’t afford it.
I’m involved very actively with three conservation charities, because I’m passionate about animals.
There’s a lovely character in ‘Under Milk Wood’ called Mrs. Ogmore Pritchard and she’s incredibly tidy and clean. She really is unbearably tidy and clean! And I terrorize my husband when he comes in sometimes from shooting and there’s awful dead birds all over the hall that he calls me Mrs. Ogmore Pritchard.
I don’t have the figure for fashion and I’ve never heard anyone say I was a fashion icon.
I’m extremely happy and extremely grateful to these stem cells. I started tennis again, and it’s going very well. I have no problem moving my arm. So I’m delighted.
I sail and play tennis, and I don’t smoke or drink caffeine.
When I stayed with my father in Africa, I was always covered from head to foot in a shirt buttoned to the neck and khaki trousers. But I often got burnt feet, because I wore sandals, which might explain the cancer on my foot.
I’ve always covered up in the sun and it seemed so ridiculous that I developed cancer despite taking precautions.
Back in the days of the colonies, there were rules that were very good.
Under Milk Wood’ was given to me when I was quite young, in Sydney. I didn’t even know what Wales was, let alone anything about Dylan Thomas. It taught me the beginning of my love of English literature.
Kissing babies and cutting ribbons I tell you, it bores me rigid.
I have different ways of saying things and doing things.
We need to protect animals, not go to court over them.
France’s Charles VI was subject to fits of insanity and unable to rule.
Well we thought a church wedding would be possible. It certainly would be possible in the Catholic church because after all my first marriage had been annulled by Pope Paul VI. The problem arose in that Prince Michael could not have Catholic children.
You have to ask yourself seriously: does this government really want to do things or is it more interested in class struggle?
People tend to panic at the mention of the word cancer, but I wasn’t upset or frightened when the doctor told me.
The Queen is distant towards strangers. But with friends and family she can be very funny.
I like to look nice but I don’t care about fashion.
Prince William is absolutely adorable.