The royals - Kitty Kelley [288]
Interviews: Sarah Ferguson with Diane Sawyer, ABC-TV, Prime Time Live; Rosie Boycott (April 27, 1993; April 25, 1995; May 31, 1995).
CHAPTER 19
Articles: People, June 17, 1991; Glenys Roberts’s profile on the Duke of Edinburgh, Telegraph Sunday Magazine; Newsweek, August 23, 1993; Evening Standard, June 6, 1992; Who, September 14, 1992; National Review, September 14, 1992; the Sunday Times, November 29, 1992; “Annus Horribilis,” Alan Hamilton, London News, 1993; Max Hastings, the Spectator, September 19, 1992; New York Times, July 30, 1991, and June 2, 1992; “Building a Better Prince,” William Tuohy, Los Angeles Times Magazine, May 6, 1994.
Interviews: John Barratt (November 23, 1993); Francis Wheen (November 23, 1993); Christopher Hitchens (November 23, 1994); Robin Knight-Bruce (May 11, 1995); Michael Cole (November 15, 1993); Andrew Neil (September 12, 1994); Taki Theodoracopulos (November 12, 1993); confidential source with Philip’s WWF party (March 15, 1996).
Re: Security precautions for the royal family:
“This became an issue,” said the head of the Royalty and Diplomatic Squad, “in July 1982 when Michael Fagan broke into Buckingham Palace and entered the bedroom of the Queen.” The intruder climbed over the railings of Buckingham Palace, scaled a fifty-foot drainpipe, and broke in through a bedroom window. “This was a breakdown in security. No question. Afterward, we had to survey the procedures in all the royal houses throughout the country, and the report was debated in Parliament…. There is no question but that the police did not do their job properly…. The benign assumption that no one would want to harm ‘our dear Queen’ accounted for the lax security. We’ve tightened things up, but we’ll never go the way of the Americans at the White House with sharpshooters in the trees and heat sensors and metal detectors. The Palace has none of that and will never have… that.”
The man sent from the Diplomatic Police Group to review security measures said he talked to the Queen about the 1982 break-in. “You don’t interview the monarch,” he said deferentially. “You ask a few questions.” He admitted that he did not ask the Queen where her husband was during the break-in. “The question was not necessary,” he said.
Even when summoned, the staff did not appear immediately. “We had to change our shirts and comb our hair,” said a member of the royal household. “It would be improper to appear otherwise in the presence of the monarch.”
Re: The royal family’s relationship with British press:
The following list, amusingly compiled, was published to educate visitors:
The Times Read by the people who run the country.
Daily Mirror Read by the people who think they run the country.
Guardian Read by the people who think they should run the country.
Morning Star Read by those who think another country should run this country.
Daily Mail Read by the wives of the people who run the country.
Financial Times Read by people who own the country.
Daily Express Read by the people who think the country should be run as it used to be run.
Daily Telegraph Read by the people who still think it is.
The Sun Read by the people who do not care who runs the country as long as they have big tits.
CHAPTER 20
Articles: Daily Mail, October 22, 1994; People, November 30, 1992, December 6, 1993; the Nation, December 27, 1993; “The Windsor Knot” by Anthony Haden-Guest, New York Observer, May 24, 1993; “The Saddest Man Ever” by Penny Junor, Evening Standard, January 13, 1993; Reuters, March 9, 1996; “Princess bids halo and farewell to her Critics” by Robert Hardman, the Sunday Telegraph, March 7, 1993; the Economist, December 11, 1993.
Interviews: Peter McKay (November 11, 1993); Geraldine Sharpe-Newton (March 18, 1994); Sheila Hailey (March 18, 1994); confidential interview with lawyer (March 16, 1994); Henry