Penny Junor Quotations

She came into that marriage a damaged individual. She desperately needed love and security and needed to be the center of the prince's attention. He was a man who lacked confidence, who needed love, needed assurance. He didn't know where he was going in his life. Neither could provide what the other needed.

He never disputed (Diana's) charges, ... He never wanted anyone to defend him. With the result, her version of the events is the accepted version, accepted wisdom and I think it's extremely unfair to the Prince of Wales.

My sources could not be better, ... I have got some contacts that trust me and respect what I do.

The Queen is contemptuous of monarchies that do pick and choose and do retire. One inherits after the other dies -- that's it.

What makes life most difficult is the media intrusion, ... I think the public has gotten more and more greedy for the intimate details of their lives. These people are exposed to scrutiny 24 hours a day. We feel we have a right to know. We feel it's in the public interest. Even pop stars get more privacy. We just want to know every last detail. They are living in a goldfish bowl. And it never goes away.

This is not an attack on the Princess of Wales,

The book itself is not filled with sensational revelations, ... It's filled with a new explanation of what went wrong with that marriage.

It was only years later that he found out that the princess had been having an affair for months before he and Camilla had even made contact.

Those things were taken out and given banner headline treatment, ... The death threats take one sentence in a book of over 100,000 words.

All the problems with Diana, all the tapes and everything, Camilla has been lurking in the background. So the queen has been very resistant about this whole relationship. But the fact of the matter is, the prince loves Camilla, he needs her very much.