This book relied on interviews with about 120 people directly involved with the royal family – former employees of the family, public servants, politicians, lawyers and journalists. For the usual reasons, few of the people who I interviewed wanted to speak on the record. The vast majority did not want their contribution quoted. Providing sources in books that rely on those off-the-record conversations is always unsatisfactory. Rather than endlessly list ‘private conversation’ as the source, I have decided to eschew any references to all the interviews which contributed to the narrative. Assiduous readers seeking the source of a quotation will be understandably irritated by that omission. I can only ask for forbearance and the assurance that most of the contentious quotations were sourced for the two libel lawyers who read the book, and that many others came from the public record.
Chapter 2: Plots and Counterplots
‘very few people’ Mail on Sunday 4.6.17; Reagan Library
The obvious suspect’ Woodrow Wyatt diary 29.10.00, quoting John Major
‘willingly cooperated’ Mail on Sunday 20.11.94
‘Others accused’ Penny Junor, Charles: Victim or Villain? (HarperCollins, 1998), p.133
‘Charles, they said’ Mail on Sunday 24.8.03
‘The surge of’ Jonathan Dimbleby, The Prince of Wales: An Intimate Portrait (Little, Brown, 1994), p.190
‘Twenty-three years’ Junor, op. cit., p.13
‘Parker Bowles avoided’ Anne de Courcy, Daily Mail 26.11.93
‘made no protest’ Gyles Brandreth, Charles and Camilla: Portrait of a Love Affair (Century, 2005), p.93
‘the perfect escort’ Junor, op. cit., p.89
‘her affair was’ Robert Lacey, Monarch: The Life and Reign of Elizabeth II (Free Press, 2003), p.270
Chapter 3: The Masters of Spin
‘retreat into isolation’ Sunday Times 4.12.94
‘I don’t see’ Dimbleby, op. cit., p.427
‘I pointed out’ Ibid., p.149
‘Perhaps the most’ Ibid., p.153
‘I have always’ Letter to Shebbeare 21.1.93, quoted ibid., p.493
‘wanted to promote’ Financial Times interview 22.11.93
‘He judged’ Tony Blair, A Journey (Hutchinson, 2010), p.150
‘which he complained’ Ibid., p.137
‘a fairly decent’ Alastair Campbell, Diaries Vol. 2: Power and the People 1997–99 (Hutchinson, 2011), p.218
‘You will need’ Peter Mandelson, The Third Man: Life at the Heart of New Labour (HarperPress, 2010), pp.233–4
Chapter 4: Uneasy Lies the Head
‘They’re all going’ Lacey, op. cit., p.352
‘In the hours’ Ibid., p.385
‘Would you rather’ Junor, op. cit., p.20
‘she had a’ Blair, op. cit., p.133
‘good cause to’ Ibid., p.134
‘Blair did not’ Ibid., p.143
‘I talked less’ Ibid., p.150
‘His idea that’ Jonathan Powell, The New Machiavelli: How to Wield Power in the Twentieth Century (Bodley Head, 2010), p.40
‘want a monarchy’ Roy Strong, Scenes and Apparitions: Diaries 1988–2003 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2017), p.235
‘It only goes’ Mandelson, op. cit., p.236
‘All he wanted’ Mark Bolland, Sunday Times 10.4.05
‘Janvrin immediately hired’ Campbell, Diaries Vol. 2, op. cit., p.154
Chapter 5: Mutiny and Machiavellism
‘We’re going to’ Campbell, Diaries Vol. 2, op. cit., p.154
‘a journey back’ Alastair Campbell, The Blair Years: Extracts from the Alastair Campbell Diaries (Random House, 2007), p.324
‘the problems and’ Dimbleby, op. cit., pp.421–36
‘tone down his’ Mandelson, op. cit., p.236
‘an opinion poll’ Brandreth, op. cit., p.291
‘as a priority’ Sunday Times 12.7.98
‘a Christmas card’ Campbell, The Blair Years, op. cit, p.351
‘remained in love’ Junor, op. cit., p.292
‘some suspected that’ Daily Mirror 18.1.99
‘Hanoverian’ Strong, op. cit., pp.275, 284
Chapter 6: Body and Soul
‘Charles had decided’ Anthony Holden, Diana: Her Life and Legacy (Random House, 1997), p.339
‘financing his charities’ Dimbleby, op. cit., p.361
‘Charles’s pay-off’ Ibid.
‘What really worries’ Holden, op. cit., p.193
‘I have no’ Charles letter to Shebbeare 21.1.93, quoted Dimbleby, op. cit., p.493
‘an excessive amount’ Dimbleby, op. cit., p.379
‘practised by folk’ Ibid., p.306
‘would later admit’ Ibid., p.313
‘Sir James Watt’ Ibid., p.306
‘Charles continued to’ Catherine Mayer, Charles: The Heart of a King (W.H. Allen, 2015), p.300
‘unwilling to distinguish’ Edzard Ernst, A Scientist in Wonderland: A Memoir of Searching for Truth and Finding Trouble (Imprint Academic, 2015), p.137
‘a course in’ Ibid., pp.83–4
‘incompetent’ House of Lords Science and Technology Committee, Sixth Report, 2000
‘The information’ Ernst, op. cit., pp.157ff
Chapter 7: The Masterbuilder
‘class war’ Gavin Stamp, ‘Charlie Come Lately’, Spectator 13.1.89
‘hideous little boxes’ Dimbleby, op. cit., p.367
‘to roll back’ Ibid., p.277
‘utter nonsense’ Daily Mail 28.6.06
‘At his happiest’ Mayer, op. cit., p.293
‘she rejected’ Holden, op. cit., p.208; John Campbell, The Iron Lady: Margaret Thatcher – From Grocer’s Daughter to Iron Lady (Jonathan Cape, 2009), p.467
‘They want to’ Dimbleby, op. cit., p.277
‘a clever way’ Prince Charles, A Vision of Britain (Doubleday, 1989), pp.44–5
‘based on ridicule’ Sally Bedell-Smith, Prince Charles: The Passions and Paradoxes of a Misunderstood Life (Michael Joseph, 2017), p.237; New York Times 4.11.89
‘the hovering hordes’ Charles, A Vision, op. cit., p.59
‘But why does’ Strong, op. cit., p.6
‘I want the’ Dimbleby, op. cit., p.470
‘human feeling’ Junor, op. cit., p.194
‘Charles was criticised’ Holden, op. cit., p.222
‘he doubted that’ Guardian 27.10.16
‘compromised and’ Junor, op. cit., p.194
Chapter 8: Teasing the Government
‘Blair ordered’ Alastair Campbell, Diaries Vol. 3: Power and Responsibility 1999–2001 (Hutchinson, 2011), p.38
‘walking through’ Sun 2.6.99; Daily Mail 3.6.99
‘unknown to him’ Blair, op. cit., pp.139ff
‘political act’ Campbell, The Blair Years, op. cit., p.426
‘He had people’ Campbell, Diaries Vol. 3, op. cit., p.151
‘he now understood’ Blair, op. cit., p.143
‘Britain’s future king’ Campbell, The Blair Years, op. cit., p.437
‘a misjudgement’ Guardian 12.3.99
‘hapless’ Independent 14.3.99
‘The prince’s complaint’ Campbell, The Blair Years, op. cit., p.510; Guardian 25.4.05
‘It’s amazing’ Campbell, The Blair Years, op. cit., p.512
‘He’s well-meaning’ Campbell, Diaries Vol. 3, op. cit., p.677
‘immensely helpful’ Guardian 5.7.11
Chapter 9: Diana’s ‘Rock’
‘Do you have’ Peat Report, p.47
‘Her perfume’ ‘Police List of Items Allegedly Stolen by Princess Diana’s Butler’, ABC News 6.1.06
‘had transferred them’ Paul Burrell, A Royal Duty (Michael Joseph, 2003), p.344
‘They are very’ Court report, Daily Mail 29.10.02
‘write to Charles’ Burrell, op. cit., p.344
‘Most sensitively’ Ibid.
‘But Lamport was’ Peat Report, p.55
‘There is no’ Ibid., p.54
‘He told his’ Ibid.
Chapter 10: A Family at War
‘Andrew’s brother’ Junor, op. cit., p.344
‘Charles paid off’ Mark Bolland, Sunday Times 10.4.05
‘She has never’ Junor, op. cit., p.103
‘had been exposed’ News of the World 16.5.99
‘he was persuaded’ Sunday Times 13.2.05
‘He Came’ Sunday Times 10.4.05
‘did not believe’ Mary Francis, Channel 4 documentary 30.11.09
Chapter 11: A Butler’s Warnings
‘To him, it’ Don McKinnon, In the Ring: A Commonwealth Memoir (Elliott & Thompson, 2013), p.32
‘very determined’ Peat Report, p.55
‘She, like the’ Sarah McCorquodale testimony 29.1.07
‘The rape was’ Note made by O’Kane’s paralegal, Peat Report, p.36
‘I was totally’ Peat Report, pp.26–7
‘At 3 a.m.’ Mail on Sunday 10.11.02
‘not to listen’ Burrell, op. cit., p.379
‘Smith told Aylard’ Peat Report, p.18
‘Smith’s accusations’ Ibid., pp.43–4
‘there may be’ Ibid., p.21
‘very serious claims’ Ibid., p.18
‘without explosion’ Ibid., p.28
‘Others thought’ Ibid., p.37
‘Two years later’ Ibid., para 2.25, p.57
‘He had told’ Boyce statement on Brown, ‘Review of Operation Plymouth’, para 10, p.39
‘Charles had already’ Peat Report, para 2.48, p.61
‘There was no’ Ibid., para 2.55, p.63
‘his lawyers did’ Ibid., para 2.30, p.57; pp.59–60
‘strongly influenced’ Ibid., para 2.41, p.60
‘to say later’ Sun 23.10.02
‘he also patted’ Peat Report, para 2.37, p.59
‘Bolland mentioned’ Ibid., para 2.55, p.63
‘but they offered’ Ibid., para 2.68, p.67
‘Burrell described’ Burrell, op. cit., p.365
‘The threat was’ Peat Report, para 2.63(e), p.65
‘If Burrell described’ Ibid.
‘O’Kane ordered’ Ibid., p.61
‘extreme delicacy’ Ibid., pp.65–6
‘They could not’ Ibid., paras 1.140–1, p.35; Burrell, op. cit., pp.160ff
‘Unknown to the’ Burrell at Diana inquest 17.1.08
‘Yates, he submitted’ Peat Report, pp.65–6; Evening Standard 1.11.02
Chapter 12: A Struggle for Power
‘Today we commend’ News of the World 13.1.02
‘Who knows what’ Daily Mail 7.7.01
‘simultaneously receiving’ Peat Report, paras 4.18–34
Chapter 13: A New Era Begins
‘What we really’ Strong, op. cit., p.388
‘an embarrassing’ Sun 4.4.02
‘Her immediate response’ Mary Francis, Channel 4 documentary 30.11.09
‘a friend of’ Ibid.
‘The latest opinion’ YouGov poll, Daily Telegraph 4.2.02
‘dead wood’ McKinnon, op. cit., p.37
‘destroying the’ Campbell, The Blair Years, op. cit., p.639
‘Charles had mentioned’ Alastair Campbell, The Burden of Power: Countdown to Iraq (Hutchinson, 2012), p.241
‘he had also’ Mayer, op. cit., p.211
‘had little choice’ Campbell, Burden of Power, op. cit., p.309
‘environmentally friendly’ The Times 9.10.17
‘the potential to’ Campbell, Burden of Power, op. cit., p.309
Chapter 14: Shuttlecocks and Skirmishes
‘I told my’ Peat Report, para 2.69, p.67
‘The waters were’ Ibid., para 2.75, p.68
‘In the Burrell’ Ibid., para 2.78, p.68
‘His advice to’ Ibid., pp.69–70
‘deceived by’ Ibid., para 2.63(b), p.65; pp.70–2
‘huge assumption’ Ibid., paras 2.88–9, p.71
Chapter 15: The Queen’s Recollection
‘he had planned’ Court report, The Times 26.10.02
‘forced and broken’ Burrell, op. cit., p.379
‘subsequently described’ Peat Report, paras 2.103ff, p.74
‘Janvrin wanted’ Ibid.
‘three hours’ Burrell, op. cit., p.389
‘safekeeping or acting’ Peat Report, para 2.74, p.68
‘You’re overreacting’ Ibid., para 2.112, p.76
‘then consulted’ Campbell, Burden of Power, op. cit., p.349
‘Led by Goldsmith’ Ibid.
‘He will have’ Evening Standard 4.11.02
‘no crime and’ Ibid.
‘In graphic detail’ Burrell, op. cit., p.365
‘The paper splashed’ News of the World 3.11.02
Chapter 16: A Private Secretary Goes Public
‘unreliable alcoholic’ News of the World 10.11.02; Evening Standard 11.11.02
‘That explanation’ Peat Report, para 1.163, p.42
‘Telling my story’ News of the World 10.11.02
‘Yes, I suppose’ Sun 14.11.02
‘Peat announced’ Michael Peat TV interview 12.11.02
‘I, and more’ Daily Telegraph 25.2.05
‘I can give’ Sun 17.11.02
‘The police well’ Evening Standard 4.12.02
‘Inevitably, under’ News of the World 15.12.02; The Times 16.12.02
‘Blair was also’ Campbell, Diaries Vol. 3, op. cit., p.390
Chapter 17: Money Matters
‘Hammer had no’ Daily Mail 8.3.03
‘He had also’ Financial Times 4.11.04
‘Working for Charity’ Observer 16.3.03; Daily Telegraph 18.6.03
‘bad-mouthed Peat’ Daily Mail 16.10.03
‘The newspaper report’ Sun 25.9.03
‘In a quaint’ PAC report 2004
Chapter 18: Whitewash
‘express any view’ Peat Report, p.7
‘but the report’ Ibid., p.21
‘I’ll tell’ Ibid., p.24
‘an improper’ Ibid., p.3
‘Peat and Lawson’ Ibid., pp.35–40, 46
‘puzzled’ Ibid., pp.46–7
‘remains something of’ Ibid.
‘There is no’ Ibid., p.54
‘inappropriate’ Ibid., para 2.34, p.58
‘consistent’ Ibid., paras 2.80ff, p.69
‘The suggestion that’ Ibid., para 2.97, p.73
‘Philip had allegedly’ Ibid., p.74
‘Lawson did not’ Ibid., para 2.104, p.74
‘He wrote that’ Ibid., para 2.105, p.74
‘Yet William Boyce’ Ibid., para 2.107, p.75
‘finds no support’ Ibid., para 2.122, p.77
‘were criticised by’ Ibid. para 2.41, p.60
‘The officers concerned’ Press Association 11.04.03; Daily Mail 12.04.03
‘scandalous’ Daily Mirror 12.4.03
‘without receiving’ Guardian 9.3.03
‘received improper’ Peat Report, p.5
‘to be financed’ Daily Telegraph 16.3.03
‘allegations of’ Ibid.
Chapter 19: Revenge and Dirty Linen
‘Burrell would deny’ Burrell at Diana inquest 20.12.07
‘I do not have’ Burrell, op. cit., p.411
‘safekeeping’ Burrell at Diana inquest 17.1.08
‘I warned Charles’ News of the World 2.11.03
‘gifts were an’ Burrell, op. cit., p.341
‘twenty telephone lines’ Ibid., p.342
‘They did nothing’ Daily Mirror 23.10.03
‘One week earlier’ Daily Telegraph 11.11.03
‘I was astonished’ News of the World 9.11.03
‘Fawcett was not’ Sun 7.11.03
‘Quite frankly’ Sun 18.10.08
Chapter 20: Drowning Not Waving
‘Rowan Williams’ Daily Telegraph 13.2.03
Chapter 21: New Enemies
‘Wisdom’ Mayer, op. cit., p.342
‘My twenty-five’ American Journal of Medicine 122 (11): 973–4
‘a deleterious’ Guardian 14.5.15
‘I know of’ Guardian 27.6.04
‘Charles is a’ Ernst, op. cit., p.138
‘He added that’ British Journal of General Practice 1.1.06
‘The solution’ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1821425/
‘These are outrageous’ The Times 24.8.05
‘complementary medicine is’ The Times 29.8.05
‘He would subsequently’ Guardian 8.10.05
‘the King’s Fund’ https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/press/press-releases/some-good-evidence-complementary-therapies-more-research-needed-says-kings-fund, 23.5.06
‘Under the banner’ Guardian 11.3.09
Chapter 22: For Better or Worse
‘The majority’ Sunday Times 10.4.05
‘government lawyers’ House of Commons written answer 22.3.05
‘The shambles’ Sunday Times 10.4.05
‘When he becomes’ Guardian 11.2.05; Daily Mail 25.3.05
‘Honesty about’ Sunday Times 10.4.05
Chapter 23: Resolute Rebel
‘only £1 million’ Mail on Sunday 11.4.04
‘a journalist could’ News of the World 6.11.05
‘This tour has’ Mail on Sunday 12.11.17
‘unthinking prejudices’ Holden, op. cit., p.303
‘a capital offence’ Christopher de Bellaigue, The Islamic Enlightenment (Liveright, 2017)
Chapter 24: Rules of Conduct
‘fourteen staff’ News of the World 14.1.07
Chapter 25: King Meddle
‘The emir had’ Mr Justice Vos’s judgement 18.6.10, paras 75–7, 81, 86
‘At the beginning’ Ibid., paras 58, 69, 112
‘very unhappy’ Ibid., para 262
‘unhappy that’ Ibid., para 265
‘not wedded to’ Ibid., paras 73, 74
‘he was steering’ Ibid., para 260
‘established planning’ Richard Rogers, letter to Guardian 16.5.15
‘a huge embarrassment’ Vos judgement, para 42
‘The Emir was’ Ibid., para 74
‘a judge would agree’ Ibid., para 264
‘going to fight’ For details see note in ibid.: Daily Mail 6.2.10; Sunday Times 16.5.10; Guardian 18.6.10 and 30.6.10; The Times 30.6.10
‘Westminster councillors’ Vos judgement, paras 268, 79, 89
‘Under pressure’ Ibid., paras 92, 122, 221
‘It knocked’ Guardian 16.6.09
‘He sees this’ Ibid.
Chapter 26: The Divine Prophet
‘Anyone who’ Daily Mail 18.12.10
‘active deception’ House of Commons Science and Technology Committee report, 22–23.2.10; Guardian 2.8.10
‘sinister powers’ Daily Mail 3.3.10
‘One instant success’ Mayer, op. cit., p.69
‘the biggest’ Daily Telegraph 13.8.08
Chapter 27: Scrabbling for Cash
‘We gave the’ Guardian 23.8.01
‘it was so raw’ GQ magazine June 2017
‘eventually agreed’ Sunday Times 25.9.11
Chapter 28: Marking Time
‘This is about’ Sunday Times 3.12.17
‘another free holiday’ Daily Mail 12.7.10
‘Prince Charles must’ http://www.cornwalllive.com/prince-charles-branded-8216-hypocrite-8217-save/story-17790447-detail/story.html#hkBXyKp7R32jGfjc.99
‘exaggerated’ The Times 8.9.17, citing Political Geography
Chapter 29: The Prince’s Coup
‘fobbed off’ Mail on Sunday 16.7.17
‘14 per cent’ The Times 21.8.17 and 16.9.17; Prospect September 2017
‘To show her’ The Times 7.10.17