Quotes from Princess Michael of Kent

Well, I love easyJet. It's the only direct route to Biarritz. We always fly tourist-class anyway in Europe. For long-haul we go club.

But I'm not the first person in the Royal Family to bring out a book.

Breakfast is served on my Herend china and I sit in an old armchair so I can read the papers.

I have a pooper-scooper, a long-handled thing with a little shovel.

Don't forget I'm not English. English people maybe don't behave like we Europeans do.

The situation is as follows: my husband is a second son. That means he doesn't get the income to be a member of the Royal Family, carrying out royal duties. He, we, do as much, if not more, than some of the cousins, but he doesn't get a penny for expenses or income for doing that.

I think I have only walked down the high street once in my married life.

We've always sung. As I have become a grandmother and become older, of course you have less voice and you notice this in the bath.

I've got a better background than anyone else who married into the royal family since the war, excepting Prince Philip.

Prince Philip is very intellectual. And Prince Charles is extremely well read.

It seemed absurd. But the fact is that the establishment in this country still does not open its arms to Catholics.

Charity work is part of my life. I do it, I expect to do it, but it is not a career.

You have to ask yourself seriously: does this government really want to do things or is it more interested in class struggle?

Back in the days of the colonies, there were rules that were very good.

I'm involved very actively with three conservation charities, because I'm passionate about animals.

Well we thought a church wedding would be possible. It certainly would be possible in the Catholic church because after all my first marriage had been annulled by Pope Paul VI. The problem arose in that Prince Michael could not have Catholic children.

You can't be six feet tall and invisible.

What is marriage anyway? How do you define it? I think, for me, it's being friends.

You know, I love to sing and I don't find it difficult to read music, but no, I would never have been talented enough to be a singer and also it's a very, very demanding thing to be.

I've always covered up in the sun and it seemed so ridiculous that I developed cancer despite taking precautions.

I don't think I've ever let myself go in public - I don't even know what it would mean. I mean, I let myself go on horseback by really galloping until, you know, I think I'm going to die.

When I came back from my honeymoon, I was informed that it was not appropriate for a princess to be involved in trade. This came from the court. What about my income? That was my problem, I was told.

I have different ways of saying things and doing things.

I cook. Well, if I'm giving a dinner party I get in help.