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It's true; I'm fascinated by elite groups.
Robert Lacey
2.
Of all the varieties of modern pollution, noise is the most insidious.
Robert Lacey
3.
Saud bin Abd al-Aziz was the moon-faced, shortsighted, bespectacled son of the old founder of Saudi Arabia, who'd always been his father's protege but had never quite lived up to everything that his father had.
Robert Lacey
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There is a convention that the principal heir should be kept away from real danger. As the 'spare' rather than the heir, Harry is expected by the royal family to take the ultimate military risks.
Robert Lacey
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The Billy Carter of the British monarchy.
Robert Lacey
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I lived in Saudi Arabia in the late 1970s. It was, for a Westerner, pretty idyllic. There were the religious police; there were the rules; there were the prayer times. But it was as if we were existing in two separate universes. The Westerners were just allowed to get on with their way of life.
Robert Lacey
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My whole life as a grammar-school boy, getting to Cambridge University and working on the 'London Sunday Times' has been very aspirational.
Robert Lacey
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Fear generates anger, and fear generates violence, and those were part of what built the Saudi state.
Robert Lacey
