Quotes by Anthony Holden - Page 1

I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way street.
Anthony Holden / Writer
Monarchy
Relation
Thinking
Two
Two Way Street
Way
Two-Way
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It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation.
Anthony Holden / Writer
Delightful
Insulting
Literature
Reputation
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The winner is not the player who wins the most pots. The winner is the player who wins the most money.
Anthony Holden / Writer
Player
Winner
Winning
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While the 1980 book was being serialized in the Sunday Times, Charles attacked it through the Observer.
Anthony Holden / Writer
Book
Literature
Sunday
Attacked
Charles
Observer
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I went on a long trip through South America with Prince Charles where I was the only journalist there - a couple of photographers but no other writers.
Anthony Holden / Writer
Journey
America
Couple
South America
Charles
Writers
Photographers
Prince Charles
Trip
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As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's astonishing how the climate has changed in the last five years.
Anthony Holden / Writer
Astonishing
Literature
Writing
Years
Subject
Twenty
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The good news is that in every deck of fifty-two cards there are 2,598,960 possible hands. The bad news is that you are only going to be dealt one of them.
Anthony Holden / Writer
Cards
Hands
Two
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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 / Writer
Charles
Queen
Secretaries
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When the magistrate says 'That's not a good enough reason my man.' He said 'Excuse me, could I ask you? Have you taken an oath of allegiance to the Monarch?'
Anthony Holden / Writer
Men
Allegiance
Excuse
Oath
Taken
Umpires
Good Enough Man
Good Man Me
Good Man Enough
Magistrate
Monarch
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I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello.
Anthony Holden / Writer
Old School
Teacher
Grammar
Grammar School
Horror
Literature
Melbourne
Old Music
School
Cello
Produced
Slightly
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If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true.
Anthony Holden / Writer
Anecdotes
Literature
Loss
Anecdote
Be True
File
Likely
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What was funny if you were there is that we were all immensely sophisticated people who knew exactly what she was going to say and we're chatting away, nice to see you.
Anthony Holden / Writer
Chatting
Literature
Nice
People
Sophisticated
Funny People See
Exactly
Exactly What
Immensely
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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 / Writer
Literature
Pressure
Shut Up
Wales
Wings
In The End
Shut
Thatcher
Wing
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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 / Writer
Damage
Enormous
Long Term
Monarchy
Movement
Organized
Recovery
Political Movement
Properly
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I mean Buckingham Palace has never hired a professional public relations outfit let alone a Madison Avenue type and they would throw up their hands in horror at the very idea.
Anthony Holden / Writer
Hands
Ideas
Madison
Madison Avenue
Mean
Public Relations
Avenue
Outfit
Palace
Relations
Throw
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What it was at the time was literally a plea for, to get the pressure off for a while, to give her space to breathe. She was very unhappy. She was feeling pretty claustrophobic.
Anthony Holden / Writer
Space
Breathe
Feelings
Giving
Pressure
Unhappy
Claustrophobic
Literally
Plea
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You do now have one in three people, as shown by the famous Carlton Monarchy debate poll, saying they want to get rid of the Monarchy. That was unthinkable even three, four years ago.
Anthony Holden / Writer
Famous
Debate
Monarchy
Unthinkable
Years Ago
Poll
Rid
Shown
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I think her friends were worried that the bulimia might come back, about some psychological slide, and she was given breathing space to some extent by the media as much as she ever has been.
Anthony Holden / Writer
Breathing Space
Bulimia
Media
Psychological
Thinking
Worried
Extent
Slide
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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 / Writer
Dramatic
Dramatic Change
Opinion
Printed
Public Opinion
Taken
Thinking
Writing
Wrong Reasons
Change Me People
Merely
Possibly
Reasons
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But, of course, she didn't mean that she was going to retire from public life and only when the Queen removed her HRH some years later did she actually drop a hundred charities and just kept five.
Anthony Holden / Writer
Public Life
Charities
Drop
Queen
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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 / Writer
Design
Architect
Monstrous
Peter
Practice
Years
Suffered
Financially
Merely
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I first got to know Charles in the late seventies when I wrote an article and then a book about him and I think at the time he came across as quite appealing, it was probably the height of his popularity.
Anthony Holden / Writer
Book
Height
Late
Literature
Popularity
Seventies
Thinking
Appealing
Article
Charles
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I personally felt that his ad hominen attacks on British architects were not the sort of thing a Prince of Wales should be doing because, apart from anything else, they put various people out of business.
Anthony Holden / Writer
British
Wales
Ad
Business People Doing
Anything Else
Apart
Architects
Attacks
Personally
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I've always said, since I got to know him and wrote about him, that he's the generation he least appeals to is his own and I think in many ways he was born middle-aged and that's become apparent in recent years.
Anthony Holden / Writer
Middle Aged
Apparent
Recent
Recent Years
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Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn't have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact.
Anthony Holden / Writer
Architecture
Impact
Wales
Charles
Intent
Maneuver
Subject
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The Princess's so-called 'time and space speech' at the end of '93 about a year after the formal separation, looking back on it it's called her retirement from public life but we've seen in fact it's nothing of the kind.
Anthony Holden / Writer
Formal
Looking Back
Princess
Public Life
Retirement
Separation
Time And Space
Years
Life Time Space
About A Year
Life Space Time
So-Called
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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 / Writer
Wedding
Affection
Canterbury
Fairy
Fairy Tale
Goodwill
Impress
Investment
Literature
Success Time Money
Archbishop
Indeed
Institution
Tale
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He did once say the time to worry is when they stop writing about you but again I think that was pretty token of the coverage was very respectful, he rather resented the intrusions on his private life, but that was about it.
Anthony Holden / Writer
Coverage
Private Life
Respectful
Thinking
Worry
Writing
Token
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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 / Writer
Lifetime
Nearly
Courts
Dangers
Edward
Wait
Monarch
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Among other things they picked out a detail that Charles had been offered the Governorship of Hong Kong in its dying days by Thatcher in return for shutting up about the inner cities. He quite rightly in my view led the paper on this story.
Anthony Holden / Writer
Cities
Dying
Hong Kong
Paper
Return
Views
Among
Charles
Detail
Inner
Led
Offered
Picked
Rightly
Shutting
View
Thatcher
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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 / Writer
Diplomats
Intelligent
Opinion
Pleasant
Public Opinion
Real
Real World
Status Quo
Track
World Lose People
Civil
Drawn
Intelligent People
Palace
Quo
Servants
Status
The Real World
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When the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were growing up, that was at it's height and the War cemented that with photographs of the Royal Family having breakfast together and so on, by pinning their reputation so firmly on that particular issue.
Anthony Holden / Writer
War
Breakfast
Growing Up
Height
Princess
Reputation
Royal
Royal Family
Photographs
Cemented
Elizabeth
Firmly
Issue
Margaret
Princesses
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I don't accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. The monarchy's responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. To blame the press is the old thing of blaming the messenger for the message.
Anthony Holden / Writer
Blame
Messages
Messengers
Monarchy
Old Things
Messenger
Popular
Old Thing
Recent
Troubles
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A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by tabloid for a couple of weeks, lots of insults in the press, in the columns - this man should be put in the tower and so on.
Anthony Holden / Writer
Men
Book
Columns
Couple
Lots
Associate
Suffered
Insults
Interview
Quotes
Tabloid
Tower
Trial
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I decided he'd changed so much that a whole new book was required and that book actually I can say so was the first to say that the marriage was in trouble and the Prince didn't like at all and my book was being serialized in the Sunday Times over five weeks.
Anthony Holden / Writer
Decided
Sunday
New Book
Required
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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 / Writer
Biographies
Journalist
Considered
Beginning
Directly
In Fact
Par
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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 / Writer
Attitude
Impact
Thinking
University
Years
Life Time Age
Attitudes
Charles
Prince Charles
Royals
Same Time
Seemed
Similar
Sixties
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Consider developing your whole self with the same raw focus and intensity that you develop a particular skill set. Get focused. Go out, have adventures. Run, jump, skin your knee, fall in love, root loudly for the away team at a baseball game, barely escape a crash of stampeding rhinos, live to see another day. Experience things big and small. Go for a walk. The world is full of wonders.
Anthony Holden / Writer
Love
Running
Baseball
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