“... with a journalist or dignitary in tow. ‘We have open days at Abbey Mills Pumping Station. Prince Charles came once, down the sewers. All sorts of posh nobs.’ He enters first, nimble and fast down the ladder. His experienced sense of smell is his first line of defence against danger. My defence is a very big rope hitched to my harness. I’m glad of ...”

“... again.’ In 1978 with his foreword to The Country Life Book of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, Prince Charles was perhaps most responsible for her last incarnation as royal granny, a confection of fondant icing and chiffon. He must have conceived it as a summing up of a life approaching its end. Yet at 78 his grandmother reported that she was not ‘half ...”

“... the township by Thembalakha from the Tsoga Centre, which trains people to run small businesses. Prince Charles visited years ago, planted a tree and promised to send them a computer. They’re still waiting, Thembalakha says, smiling at the severely stunted trunk with the prince’s name on its label. He showed me around the old hostels where men working in ...”

“... much of its planning has focused on London and its environs, with schemes for Paternoster Square (Prince Charles helped to dash this one), Greenwich Peninsula, Bankside, Wembley and the Lower Lea Valley (including the Olympics master plan); and the same is true of its dock projects, which have included the Royal Albert Docks, Silvertown Docks and Convoys ...”

“... 17 years after Ian Nairn had published his long Observer article ‘Stop the Architects Now’, Prince Charles stood up to make his ‘monstrous carbuncle’ speech. What is clear is that Buruma’s description of Pevsner as ‘a critic whose anglophilia was as blinding as his Modernism’ is simply wrong.He didn’t get every building right. Or at least we ...”

“... work – Madin’s Birmingham Central Library was designed using the Golden Section – even if Prince Charles said that it ‘looks like a place where books are incinerated, not kept’. Perhaps the only notable thing about Concrete Concept is its justifiable stress on the international nature of Brutalism. In the US, where it was largely used for ...”

“... only apparently about style: the opposition between tradition and the avant garde, or between Prince Charles and the Modern Movement, or better still, the implications and consequences of the observable failure and bankruptcy of both these alternatives: Krier’s traditionalism is here as roundly excoriated as are the subversive avant-gardist ambitions of ...”

“... the Prime Minister’s approval rating in a MORI poll was, at 61 per cent, the same as that for Prince Charles, detested ex-spouse of the Althorp Madonna and prime scapegoat for her death. Even immediately after the Paris shunt, a mere 18 per cent thought that Britain should dump the Royals in favour of a republic. This was hardly surprising: as mother to ...”

“... excited by it. ‘I like ketchup with my french fries,’ a truckdriver told a friend of mine. Prince Charles wanted to be Camilla Parker Bowles’s tampon – not her hankie. There’s been a flurry of articles in the past year about the use of birth control pills to suppress menstruation on the grounds that women’s bodies were designed to have many ...”

“... Burrell, had a ‘hissy-fit’ when Morgan revealed, in spite of promising not to, that it was Prince Charles who Diana named as the one who wanted to arrange a car accident. Morgan was unmoved. ‘He was very naive to think the name would never come out. You can’t tell any journalist something that incredible and expect it to remain a secret. We just ...”

“... the reverse.’ Todd does resist, with the result that his Mendelssohn is the stuffy, spoiled, Prince Charles-ish stereotype of aloofness that I’m sure he’s trying to get away from. Todd’s Mendelssohn is seen through the wrong end of a telescope, and everything else is peered at under a microscope. One looks for the detail that counts. It is ...”

“... was in love with anybody who bravely rose against established power: Wallace, the old Covenanters, Prince Charles Edward, Washington, Mirabeau and maybe even Danton. It was the means – the act of rebellion – rather than the motley ends which made his heart thump. While Burns enjoyed making his pen run away with him in his wildly self-stimulated, hyperbolic ...”

“... a second, Chris, manages the Labour advertising account. Mandelson is friends with Tory MPs; Prince Charles; Drue Heinz; Linda Wachner, an American tycoon who had him flown across the Atlantic in her private jet; and the owner of the Ministry of Sound, who provided him with a free chauffeur and limousine before the election – ‘we are a ...”

“... on its rerelease in February 1962. (‘The funniest film of all,’ the posters outside the Prince Charles Cinema in Leicester Square declared.) My own experience of being got away, by car from London to Cwm-yr-Eglwys on the north Pembrokeshire coast, at least found some relief towards its conclusion in the spectacle of the Port Talbot steelworks, a ...”

“... monarch – or much maligned royal statesman?’ Brooke’s near hagiography has a foreword by Prince Charles, whom he befriended in the Royal Archives at Windsor: ‘We both agreed that George III had been unfairly maligned by historians and the writers of textbook history.’ More recently, shorter lives by Christopher Wright (2005) and Jeremy Black ...”