I regularly dream about the Queen. Apparently, millions of people do. I wonder who she dreams about? — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
Several people have told me that Queen Elizabeth made slighting comments about Philip within their hearing, and referred to him - not… — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
Princess Anne is like her father. From her, you'll never hear a complaint of any kind about her upbringing. — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
Once, during one of the jubilee tours, I was in the car immediately behind theirs and I watched Prince Philip telling the… — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
My introduction to the Queen was disconcerting, to say the least. 'This is Gyles Brandreth,' said the Duke of Edinburgh cheerily. 'Apparently,… — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
If you're the Queen you don't need to say anything and you don't get into trouble. If you're the Duke of Edinburgh… — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
It was Napoleon who said if you want to understand a man, look at the world as it was when he was… — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
Prince Philip's principal role since 1952 has been to support the Queen. Alongside that, he has created his own working life as… — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
During the summer of 2000, in the run-up to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother's 100th birthday, I asked the Duke of Edinburgh… — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
Prince Philip had formally 'retired' in the summer of 2017, a couple of months after his 96th birthday, because the Queen encouraged… — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
The Queen is frequently on her own, walking the dogs, riding her horses, playing patience, completing a jigsaw, sorting her photograph albums,… — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
Praise makes me humble, but when I am abused, I know that I have touched the stars. — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share
Princess Anne is like her father. From her, you'll never hear a complaint of any kind about her upbringing. — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share
In the Members' Dining Room, the Conservatives eat at one end, the Labour Party at the other, while the Liberals wait at table. — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share
“Those who pay their bills on time are soon forgotten. It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live… — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share
If you're the Queen you don't need to say anything and you don't get into trouble. If you're the Duke of Edinburgh you say… — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share
When it comes to personal communication, words are all we've got. It is the simple use of language that makes us human beings. — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share
If God had meant us to go metric, why did he give Christ twelve apostles? — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share
First and foremost, I am a writer. That's what I have spent my life doing. — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share
“One should always be suspicious of a woman who tells you that her past was burnt in the flames of a schoolhouse in Peshawar.” — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share
Among the upper classes, especially three or four generations ago, men and women had separate bedrooms. That's just the way it was. — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share
We did marry in secret and it was several years before we even told our parents that we were married. — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share
