Quotes from Anthony Holden

to live is to harbour so many profound losses.

Girl never see to know from me Who was the fairest of them all. What wouldst thou say if I asked thee: Where is the snow we watched last Fall?

Don't ask the way of those who know it, you might not get lost.

I am the self-consumer of my woes;

How often I think neither I know, nor any man knows, aught of them

Assume the worst, believe no-one, and make your move only when you are certain that you are unbeatable or have, at worst, exceptionally good odds in your favour.

Not Cancelled Yet Some honorary day if I play my cards right I might be a postage stamp but I won't be there to lick me and licking is what I liked, in tasty anticipation of the long dark slither from the mailbox, from box to pouch to hand to bag to box to slot to hand: that box is best whose lid slams open as well as shut, admitting a parcel of daylight, the green top of a tree, and a flickering of fingers, letting go.

But in my arms till break of day Let the living creature lie, Mortal, guilty, but to me The entirely beautiful.

So it was stale time then, day in, day out

I loved the Boy with the utmost love Of which my soul is capable, And he is taken from me – Yet in the agony of my spirit In surrendering such a treasure I feel a thousand times richer Than if I had never possessed it.

Thatcher came under pressure from right wing backbenchers to shut up the Prince of Wales and there was a deal done between them where he did actually shut up in the end.

Among other things they picked out a detail that Charles had been offered the Governorship of Hong Kong in its dying days by Thatcher in return for shutting up about the inner cities. He quite rightly in my view led the paper on this story.

But, of course, she didn't mean that she was going to retire from public life and only when the Queen removed her HRH some years later did she actually drop a hundred charities and just kept five.

The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but his practice suffered financially for some years.

What it was at the time was literally a plea for, to get the pressure off for a while, to give her space to breathe. She was very unhappy. She was feeling pretty claustrophobic.

We could have a political movement going if it had been properly organized but the Monarchy's done itself enormous damage possibly beyond the point of long-term recovery.

I think her friends were worried that the bulimia might come back, about some psychological slide, and she was given breathing space to some extent by the media as much as she ever has been.

He did once say the time to worry is when they stop writing about you but again I think that was pretty token of the coverage was very respectful, he rather resented the intrusions on his private life, but that was about it.

I went on a long trip through South America with Prince Charles where I was the only journalist there - a couple of photographers but no other writers.

They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world.

It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation.

When the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were growing up, that was at it's height and the War cemented that with photographs of the Royal Family having breakfast together and so on, by pinning their reputation so firmly on that particular issue.

Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons.

I've always said, since I got to know him and wrote about him, that he's the generation he least appeals to is his own and I think in many ways he was born middle-aged and that's become apparent in recent years.