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 a lot of things, sometimes too many, and you do get into trouble. — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
The fact that the Meghan and Harry interview was aired while Philip was in hospital did not trouble him. What did worry him was the couple's preoccupation with their own problems and their willingness to talk about them in public. — 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 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
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 Image
“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 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 you say… — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
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 Image
If God had meant us to go metric, why did he give Christ twelve apostles? — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
First and foremost, I am a writer. That's what I have spent my life doing. — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
