“I told Prince Philip that, having met them both, I was struck, not by ...” — Gyles Brandreth Quote

“I told Prince Philip that, having met them both, I was struck, not by the differences between him and Charles, but by their similarities.”

“In fact, when I shake hands with all those wonderful people at the Stratford Literary Festival, they will be shaking hands with the hand that shook the hand of Oscar Wilde.”

“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.”

“I met Harry through a mutual friend in the early Eighties, when Harry used to do a passable Prince Charles impersonation over a pint in my local pub in Hackney.”

“I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either.”

“Charles Dickens is a lot of fun to read but it's not obscure, and that's just fine.”