Brothers and Wives Quotes

“One of the most poignant comments during the interview came from Harry, who on earlier occasions had said that “nobody, including William, wants to be king.” Now he seemed to realize something more sinister was afoot. “I was trapped,” he told Oprah, “but I didn’t know I was trapped. Trapped within the system like the rest of the family. My father and my brother are trapped.”
― Christopher Andersen, Brothers and Wives: Inside the Private Lives of William, Kate, Harry, and Meghan

“Samantha Markle, who suffered from multiple sclerosis and was confined to a wheelchair, described her half sister as a “shallow social climber” whose behavior was “certainly not befitting of a royal family member.” She went on to say that “being a princess was something Meghan always dreamed of as a little girl. She always preferred Harry—she has a soft spot for gingers.” Samantha also accused Meghan of failing to come to the aid of their cash-strapped dad. The Windsors, she went on, would be “appalled by what she’s done to her own family.” Soon”
― Christopher Andersen, Brothers and Wives: Inside the Private Lives of William, Kate, Harry, and Meghan

“It’s not that the senior royals are racist per se,” a former member of Prince Charles’s senior staff said. “The Queen certainly isn’t. But there are a few in the extended family who are, and the aristocracy as a whole is rife with racist thinking.” As for the courtiers, bureaucrats, and advisors who actually keep the Firm up and running: “Most are not racist, but some are, and, unfortunately, at rather high levels. It’s a sad reality, but they are more of a reflection of society as a whole.”
― Christopher Andersen, Brothers and Wives: Inside the Private Lives of William, Kate, Harry, and Meghan

“IT HAD BEEN ONLY a little more than a year since the world pulled out to celebrate the nuptials of the future king and his strikingly beautiful wife—eventually to become England’s first working-class, university-educated queen. Now, in 2012, Great Britain”
― Christopher Andersen, Brothers and Wives: Inside the Private Lives of William, Kate, Harry, and Meghan

“The Queen’s decisions to voluntarily pay income taxes, to mothball the royal yacht HMS Britannia, and to end primogeniture—the thousand-year-old rule stipulating that males have precedence over females in the line of succession—all grew out of Way Ahead Group deliberations.”
― Christopher Andersen, Brothers and Wives: Inside the Private Lives of William, Kate, Harry, and Meghan

“William and Kate escaped to Villa Hibiscus on the exclusive island enclave of Mustique in the Grenadines. Mustique had royal connections going back to the 1950s, when the high-living Princess Margaret built a lavish villa there. Mick Jagger bought a place on Mustique in 1971 and was soon joined by the likes of David Bowie and Richard Branson. Two other island residents—fashion moguls John and Belle Robinson, founders of the Jigsaw clothing chain—graciously waved the customary $14,000 weekly rental fee and lent Villa Hibiscus, their estate overlooking Macaroni Beach, to the young cadet and his girlfriend. The”
― Christopher Andersen, Brothers and Wives: Inside the Private Lives of William, Kate, Harry, and Meghan

“Operation Paget would lumber on for two years before finally issuing its 832-page report confirming the findings of the original investigation in France: that the driver of the car in which Dodi and Diana were passengers on the night of August 31, 1997, was drunk; that paparazzi contributed to the crash; and that all three people who died that night failed to buckle up.”
― Christopher Andersen, Brothers and Wives: Inside the Private Lives of William, Kate, Harry, and Meghan

“Mohamed Al Fayed was more vocal than ever in his assertion that Prince Philip ordered British intelligence to assassinate Diana and Dodi, and Operation Paget had been launched by Scotland Yard to look into this and other conspiracy theories.”
― Christopher Andersen, Brothers and Wives: Inside the Private Lives of William, Kate, Harry, and Meghan

“but the stupefying realization that the paparazzi who chased her car into Paris’s Alma tunnel did nothing to help her. “She was still very much alive in the backseat,” Harry later said, “and those same people that caused the accident, instead of helping, were taking photographs of her while she was dying. They just stood there and watched her die. I will never forgive them.” William agreed.”
― Christopher Andersen, Brothers and Wives: Inside the Private Lives of William, Kate, Harry, and Meghan

“In stark contrast to William’s mother, Kate had never come close to moving in aristocratic circles, much less royal ones. She was an untitled commoner, a descendant of coal miners and factory workers. Kate’s mother, Carole, grew up partly in public housing and was working as a British Airways flight attendant when she met and married fellow airline employee Michael Middleton.”
― Christopher Andersen, Brothers and Wives: Inside the Private Lives of William, Kate, Harry, and Meghan

“Then there was the matter of Harry’s dismal academic performance. No match for his brother scholastically, Harry struggled with all his courses, failing two out of three. His D in geography was actually the lowest grade in his class. These failures, coupled with still-unaddressed feelings of grief and a newfound sense of shame, led Harry to believe he simply “didn’t measure up. I didn’t like school at all,” admitted Harry, who began to embrace the role in which Fleet Street had cast him. “I wanted to be the bad boy.” The”
― Christopher Andersen, Brothers and Wives: Inside the Private Lives of William, Kate, Harry, and Meghan

“A heavy drinker who suffered debilitating bouts of depression, Smith claimed that he had been raped not once but twice by one of Prince Charles’s manservants. Smith also insisted that he saw the same manservant engaged in a sexual act with a senior member of the royal family.”
― Christopher Andersen, Brothers and Wives: Inside the Private Lives of William, Kate, Harry, and Meghan

“When the dust finally cleared after nine months of haggling, Diana was allowed to remain at Kensington Palace with an annual allowance of $600,000 and would share custody of William and Harry with Charles. She also received a lump sum payment of $22.5 million. Yet on the issue of Diana’s royal status, the Queen would not budge.”
― Christopher Andersen, Brothers and Wives: Inside the Private Lives of William, Kate, Harry, and Meghan

“Diana wanted and got the Queen’s assurance that she would prohibit Charles and William from flying together, her reasoning being that “If something happened, then Harry would become king, and it would crush him.”
― Christopher Andersen, Brothers and Wives: Inside the Private Lives of William, Kate, Harry, and Meghan

“Over the next three months, the Princess of Wales and the Crown were immersed in intense negotiations that would determine the details of a final divorce settlement. Diana demanded the right to continue living at Kensington Palace, share custody of the children, and maintain access to all the perks that went with being a member of the royal family—including use of the royal fleet of cars and aircraft, and a staff commensurate with her status as the mother of a future king. All this, and $70 million. Needless”
― Christopher Andersen, Brothers and Wives: Inside the Private Lives of William, Kate, Harry, and Meghan