THEY SAID WHAT?

“Oh, don’t believe all that crap”

- The Prince of Wales when asked on radio if he took his own lavatory seat with him on foreign trips.

“I hate selfies. They’e horrible. They make everyone look ugly because they are shot from an angle right up your nose. What’s wrong with a good old photograph? Selfies should be banned from the planet”

- Former model Twiggy, now turned actress, who is approaching 70.

“I made promises that were sort of unrealistic. Three-and-a-half months was very early. But we made it work. In hindsight, five-and-a-half months would have been better. But you don’t know before going off on maternity”

- Alex Jones, below, co-presenter of TV’s The One Show, on returning to work after giving birth.

“I am deeply disappointed, perplexed and dismayed by the ruling”

- Hollywood legend Dame Olivia de Havilland, 101, who is to appeal against a court’s rejection of her claim that a docudrama defamed her by falsely showing her as a hypocrite and a gossip.

“Can’t people understand that it’s possible to be a prime minister and still enjoy knitting?”

- Former Australian PM, Barryborn Julia Gillard.

“If you aren’t a bit resilient at my age, then give up, darling”

- Classicist Mary Beard.

“The crown’s so-called Loyal Opposition is being utterly transformed as it swerves so far to the anti-British hard-Left as to become indistinguishable from the British Communist Party”

- Writer Frederick Forsyth.