“Mom and Dad never told them, ... Nobody ever taught them. And now there are so many young people who've not been taught by their parents, who didn't know anyway. Their grandparents may have known how to behave in the theater. But now we've got two generations down who haven't a clue!”
“I think it's the epitome of bad taste. There are only three things that should not be commercialized: when you are born, when you get married and when you die. You should not make a deal with a funeral parlor to get publicity, and it's very bad taste to get publicity for a wedding.”
“[But sooner or later, in a hard-bitten capital consumed in scandal, war and competition with rising powers like China, might the royal family ever be considered irrelevant and thus dropped from the dinner list?] That could happen, ... But I hope not in my lifetime. I was born dreaming of monarchies. I want to die that way.”
