The Queen is contemptuous of monarchies that do pick and choose and do retire. One inherits after the other dies -- that's it.

This is not an attack on the Princess of Wales,

The book itself is not filled with sensational revelations, ... It's filled with a new explanation of what went wrong with that marriage.

What makes life most difficult is the media intrusion, ... I think the public has gotten more and more greedy for the intimate details of their lives. These people are exposed to scrutiny 24 hours a day. We feel we have a right to know. We feel it's in the public interest. Even pop stars get more privacy. We just want to know every last detail. They are living in a goldfish bowl. And it never goes away.

It was only years later that he found out that the princess had been having an affair for months before he and Camilla had even made contact.

I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.