Penny Junor

Kate Middleton has no blue blood coursing through her veins. Her father, Michael, is self-made, and he and his wife have been very successful with their party business, but they are and always will be strictly middle class.

Kate Middleton is intelligent, good looking, kind, and fun, and she is remarkably normal.

Prince Charles has his foibles, but he is not a crook, not a bully, and not a hypocrite.

I wasn't a pushy parent - you have to let children be who they want to be.

Public disapproval is the price I pay for writing about the royals.

I have watched people around members of the royal family for a long time now, and something very strange happens to them. They turn into sycophants.