Page 23; “The Duke has a slight…problem…with…a…his “willy,”” says a source several times removed from the Duke of York. Another unnamed source says the Duchess, later the Queen Mum, has to be artifically inseminated by her husband.
Page 78; “She once asked if Dante was a horse, because she had never heard of the medieval poet.” Though Queen Elizabeth had no formal education, her comment was not as naive as Kelley suggest: Dante, A thoroughbred racehorse, won the English Derby in 1945. That could explain the confusion.
Page 81; “‘I can’t get her out of my bed’,” Prince Philip groused on a trip to Monaco, months after marrying Elizabeth. Kelley attributes the tale to the Duke and Duchess of Leeds, though there has been no Duke-or Duchess-of Leeds since 1964.
Page 268; “Raine (Diana’s stepmother) suspected that Diana’s virginity had vanished in 1978 when she was dating James Gilbey.” But even Fleet Street knew Diana to be “a girl without a past.”
Page 287; “(The night before the wedding)…Charles spent the night in the arms of his mistress.” Royal-watchers surmise that Charles cheated during the engagement-but not likely hours before taking his vows.
