THEY SAID WHAT?

“I know only too well - and understand - the strange feeling of disbelief that this is actually happening and that never again, for instance, will it be possible to squeeze into a pair of budgie smugglers. I don’t know about you, ladies and gentlemen, but now bits of me keep falling off at regular intervals. ‘Don’t worry’, they keep telling me, ‘you have brilliant genes”’ - The Prince of Wales on approaching 70.

“I was incandescent with rage” - BBC presenter Sarah Montague on learning she was paid less than her Today programme colleagues.

“Even the Tories themselves now admit that they have left teachers thousands of pounds worse off, so it is no wonder they have created such a crisis in teacher recruitment and retention” - Angela Rayner, below, shadow education secretary.

“There is no doubt that, for a country of five million people, Scotland punches well above its weight in terms of international brand recognition and cultural influence. Making the most of these strengths is absolutely key to our future prosperity - but it can have much wider benefits as well” - Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, on a trade-boosting visit to China.

“I am growing old disgracefully. Having been semi-nude in Playboy, I might strip fully naked when I’m 80” - Former Bond girl Jane Seymour, 67.

“I don’t know how I became a gay icon. When I started out, I hadn’t had much tragedy in my life - apart from bad hairdos” - Kylie Minogue.