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I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But I could not walk into a hotel in America and get a cup of coffee, and that made me mad.

I've been to the White House a number of times.

I pretend I'm one of the royal family when I'm in a hotel and that the hotel belongs to me - it is a palace.

I head a nation of a million presidents.

I will do everything, everything in my power, for as long as I am here, to enable the people of King Cove to receive proper emergency access that the rest of us take for granted.

Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.

I'm a passionate monarchist.

As the President has indicated, my life has been a life of travel - for 60 years constantly moving over the wide world on journeys which first and last have taken me to 83 countries, and, what is more significant, to most of them again and again.

It's vital that the monarchy keeps in touch with the people. It's what I try and do.