Prince Andrew Quotes
Son of Queen Elizabeth II & Prince Philip
Her friends say she is very funny. At a family dinner, she stood to go, and the footman very properly pulled her chair away. At that moment I asked her a question and she sat down again, except there was no chair. Everyone, including the Queen, laughed and laughed.
When the question arose whether I, as a member of the royal family, should take part in active combat in the Falklands, there was no question in her mind, and it only took her two days to sort the issue.
Sarah will talk to me about someone and I don't know who she's talking about, but if she talks to my mother, the two of them will know exactly - and across several generations, too.
You, I, we all encounter behaviors that we might say, I wouldn't do that. But she has a huge amount of contact with how people live. She sees more hospices and sink estates than most people.
She is incredibly fit, but we remind staff that she's not just the monarch, but our mother.
People say to me, Would you like to swap your life with me for 24 hours? Your life must be very strange. But of course I have not experienced any other life. It's not strange to me.
Today is reality. Yesterday is history.
We've had American TV shows in Britain for years and that hasn't affected our culture at all.
It's slightly complicated for people to grasp the idea of a head of state in human form.
It's almost a responsibility for all the people of the United Kingdom, regardless of race, color or creed, and an understanding that you have an individual connection with each and every one.
I'll tell you where the injustice is. It's with the person earning £12,000 to £15,000-a-year who is being asked to be restrained by their business or employer. Yet the taxpayer has bailed out the banks, so why are they not showing restraint?
I look at Canada like a second home.
People say to me, 'Would you like to swap your life with me for 24 hours? Your life must be very strange.'
It would not be a bad idea if bankers were to go and sit occasionally with politicians in their political surgeries, where they might get a sense of the injustice that some of the community feel about the banks.
I could have worse tags than 'Airmiles Andy' - although I don't know what they are.
I'm in a privileged position and I'm going to do my utmost to use that privileged position on behalf of the U.K., its citizens, its businesses and people.
I've always been told I was extremely well-behaved as a kid.
The Royal Family have always had an interest in a number of different areas of society. We are a part of society.