“Back in the days of the colonies, there were rules that were very good...” — Princess Michael of Kent Quote

“Back in the days of the colonies, there were rules that were very good.”

“I hold hands with all my friends. I don't think that's being intimate at all.”

“Look, I was taught, and I taught my children, if they ever came back from school saying 'Oh, so and so's father's got a helicopter, it's not fair,' I'd say, 'Fair? Whoever said life had to be fair? Is it fair that you live in Kensington Palace? That you've each got a pony? There are an awful lot of kids without a pony, you know.'”

“The painful truth may be that Zimbabwe, the youngest of Africa's former colonies, has simply followed where the continent has led, treading the well-worn path beaten out of the lie that taking power from the colonialists and delivering democracy to the people are one and the same.”

“In government as well as in trade a new era came to the colonies in 1763.”

“As times change, so do the way each generation see the world. It is rather like the way our generation came to see our grandparents' views on the Empire and colonies as outdated.”