Andrew Morton Quotes

United Kingdom, Writer
1953

Andrew David Morton is an English journalist and writer who has published biographies of royal figures such as Diana, Princess of Wales, and celebrity subjects including Tom Cruise, Madonna, Angelina Jolie and Monica Lewinsky; several of his books have been unauthorised and contain contested assertions.

Also known as Journalist

He's a TV producer, a theatrical impresario, and he wants to be treated as Mr. Windsor but when the going gets rough he wants to be treated like a member of the Royal Family.

Andrew Morton
- Family
I would argue that television and particularly the BBC were instrumental in puffing up the Royal Family to a level where they were inflated out of all, all proportion to their relevance on the national scene.

Andrew Morton
- Up
- Family

Stories about Diana's fashions, about possible rows between Charles and Diana, these were meat and drink.

Andrew Morton
They defined what was private and what was public and they would move it whenever they wished.

Andrew Morton
For a time during the 1980s the Royal Family were not just the most influential family in Britain but probably in Europe and Prince Charles specifically was very much like a defacto Cabinet member and what he said actually had impact on public policy.

Andrew Morton
- Time
- Family
- Prince