So the whole thrust of any kind of reportage of the Royal Family, certainly in the tabloids, it may have been intrusive in terms of the way you define it, but it was certainly very laudatory and it really maintained and expanded the fairy tale.

This book was done with her full cooperation. There is nothing underhanded about it,

probably the scoop of the century.

Her legacy and testament are the words in her book. I am very proud she chose me to tell her story, ... There is no point in pretending any more.

I think it [marrying into the Royal Family] is something Sophie?s mother is quite concerned about. She wants to see happiness for her daughter and, given that three out of four marriages have failed, she has every right to be concerned about whether her daughter will find happiness.

They defined what was private and what was public and they would move it whenever they wished.