I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this biography is based.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Over the last two years, I have been able to comb through The Prince's archives. I have been free to read his journals, diaries and many thousands of the letters.
He was definitely an original and a one-of-a-kind. Truly there was only one Prince.
The moment seemed right to me for a full and, if possible, authoritative portrait of the life and character of the Prince of Wales.
We have at our fingertips information that 500 years ago would have made the poorest man a prince.
I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was.
I decided he'd changed so much that a whole new book was required and that book actually I can say so was the first to say that the marriage was in trouble and the Prince didn't like at all and my book was being serialized in the Sunday Times over five weeks.
I am afraid that people will think I re-illustrated 'The Little Prince,' when really, it was more a tribute to him as a dedicated pilot and a man who believed in the goodness of people.
While I have corrected agreed factual errors, I have not been inhibited from writing what I felt to be the truth about The Prince of Wales.
If you're not Prince, you're never going to sound like Prince.
I had lost faith in biography.
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