“ Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes. ”

“ Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it. ”

“ Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress? ”

“ We're busily wrecking the chances for future generations at a rapid rate of knots by not recognizing the damage we're doing to the natural environment, bearing in mind that this is the only planet that we know has any life on it. ”

“ It is baffling, I must say, that in our modern world we have such blind trust in science and technology that we all accept what science tells us about everything - until, that is, it comes to climate science. ”