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“I feel like everyone else in this country does today – utterly devastated. Our thoughts and prayers are with Princess Diana’s family, in particular her two sons, two boys – our hearts go out to them. We are today a nation in Britain in a state of shock, in mourning, in grief that is so deeply painful for us. She was a wonderful and warm human being. Though her own life was sadly touched by tragedy, she touched the lives of so many others in Britain – throughout the world – with joy and with comfort. How many times shall we remember her, in how many different ways, with the sick, the dying, the children, with the needy, when, with just a look or a gesture that spoke so much more than words, she would reveal to all of us the depth of her compassion and her humanity... She was the people’s princess and that’s how she will stay, how she will remain in our hearts and in our memories forever.” – 31st August 1997.
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“As I contemplated her death and what I would say, I felt a sense of obligation as well as sadness. I felt I owed it to her to try to capture something of what she was. We were both in our ways manipulative people, perceiving quickly the emotions of others and able instinctively to play with them, but I knew that when she reached out to the disabled or sick in a way no-one else could have done and no-one else in her position ever had done, it was sincerity.” – 31st August 1997.
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“The phrase ‘people’s princess’ now seems like something from another age, and canny. And over the top. And all the rest of it. But at the time it felt natural and I thought, particularly, that she would have approved. It was how she saw herself, and it was how she should be remembered.” – 31st August 1997.
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“I was the moderniser, in personality, in language, in time, feel and temperament. Split in any way you like, the damn thing was obvious in the end.” – 1st May 1997
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“This was not a win. It was a landslide.” – 1st May 1997
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“This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world. The people who perpetrate it have no regard whatsoever for the sanctity or value of human life, and we, the democracies of the world must come together to defeat it and eradicate it. This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism. We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.” - 11th September 2001.
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