“I went on a long trip through South America with Prince Charles where ...” — Anthony Holden Quote

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.

Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn't have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact.

While the 1980 book was being serialized in the Sunday Times, Charles attacked it through the Observer.

I mean Buckingham Palace has never hired a professional public relations outfit let alone a Madison Avenue type and they would throw up their hands in horror at the very idea.

When you look at Prince Charles, don't you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone in the Royal family?

I didn't know children were expected to have literary heroes, but I certainly had one, and I even identified with him at one time: Doctor Dolittle, whom I now half identify with the Charles Darwin of Beagle days.

I've been influenced by some of the greatest designers. Charles Eames. And Bruno Munari in the '50s in Italy - when they had to retool the industry of war into an industry to help society. In a way, I'm influenced by designers that were there at a radical time of change.

I don't know of a soul who packed more living into 72 years than Charles Lindbergh did.