The Wicked Wit of the Royal Family

Prince Charles mused, ‘I sometimes wonder if two-thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.’

Princess Diana joked, ‘They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise, like moderately rich and just moody?’

To the matron of a Caribbean hospital during a visit in 1968, ‘Well, you have mosquitoes, we have the press.’

Diana commented ruefully, ‘The higher the media put you, place you, is the bigger the drop.’

‘never complain, never explain’.

Anne – ‘Golf seems to be an arduous way to go for a walk. I prefer to take the dogs out.’

Shortly before leaving on a visit to the US, Prince Harry reflected, ‘Every time I get to meet kids and they have been told a real-life prince is coming, the disappointment on their faces when they see me without a crown or a cape.’

Princess Margaret famously said, ‘I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life’ and that ‘I have as much privacy as a goldfish in a bowl.’

The Queen was clear, ‘I have to be seen to be believed.’

Speaking about his mother as Sovereign, Prince Andrew thought, ‘It’s slightly complicated for people to grasp the idea of a head of state in human form.’