I have watched people around members of the royal family for a long time now, and something very strange happens to them. They turn into sycophants.

My house is full of paintings by my mother Pam. She was a fantastic, prolific artist but had no confidence in herself, thanks to my father running her down. They married during the war when she was 19 - she had planned to go to art school. But my father didn't want her to work, so she became a housewife.

Public disapproval is the price I pay for writing about the royals.

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