Christopher Andersen > Quotes

“The single most important thing anyone needs to know about me," Kate hepburn said, "is that I am totally, completely the product of two damn fascinating individuals who happened to be my parents. I've had a pretty remarkable life, but compared to my mother and father, I'm dull.”
― Christopher Andersen, An Affair to Remember: The Remarkable Love Story of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy

“Daddy,” said the toddler, now seething with righteous indignation, “you are a poo-poo head!”

Feigning outrage, JFK lowered his voice. “John,” he said, “no one calls the President of the United States a poo-poo head.”
― Christopher Andersen, These Few Precious Days: The Final Year of Jack with Jackie

“When Frey asked students to draw the creation, the other kids drew animals and Adam and Eve. Caroline covered her paper in black crayon, then held it up to reveal she had punched out holes for the stars and the moon. 'And then there was light', she said…”
― Christopher Andersen, These Few Precious Days: The Final Year of Jack with Jackie

“Ostensibly, the Bushes seemed to be the antithesis of their predecessors, unencumbered by rumors of marital infidelity or financial improprieties.”
― Christopher Andersen, George and Laura: Portrait of an American Marriage

“Chris, with Dana steadfastly at his side, would battle back to become both a leader in the fight to cure spinal cord injuries and a symbol of hope for millions.”
― Christopher Andersen, Somewhere in Heaven: The Remarkable Love Story of Dana and Christopher Reeve

“All people want to be touched. —Diana”
― Christopher Andersen, The Day Diana Died

“Concord Academy. Since leaving home, John’s sister had decided that she, too, wished to take to the skies. “People always think of John running up to welcome his father’s helicopter,” Pierre Salinger said. “They forget Caroline was on the White House lawn waiting for Daddy, too.” Moreover, JFK’s campaign plane was named after her—something she took considerable pride in as a little girl. “Caroline had been flying for years before John was even born,” George Plimpton said. “Flying was second nature to her, and it made perfect sense that she’d want to give it a try.” As enthusiastic as John was about aviation, it was their stepbrother who took them up in planes”
― Christopher Andersen, The Good Son: JFK Jr. and the Mother He Loved

“I finally understand what it means to find that someone who is everything to you. Once you've found that kind of love, you must hold on to it-no matter what or who gets in the way. - Princess Diana”
― Christopher Andersen

“When I was born I was unwanted. When I married Charles I was unwanted. When I joined the Royal Family I was unwanted. I want to be wanted. —Diana, Princess of Wales”
― Christopher Andersen, The Day Diana Died

“And she shared the philosophy Jackie expressed when a friend of hers warned that by marrying Ari she would fall off her pedestal. “It’s better,” Jackie replied, “than freezing there.”
― Christopher Andersen, The Day Diana Died

“but the stupefying realization that the paparazzi who chased her car into Paris’s Alma tunnel did nothing to help her. “She was still very much alive in the backseat,” Harry later said, “and those same people that caused the accident, instead of helping, were taking photographs of her while she was dying. They just stood there and watched her die. I will never forgive them.” William agreed.”
― Christopher Andersen, Brothers and Wives: Inside the Private Lives of William, Kate, Harry, and Meghan

“There will never be another Camelot,” she told White wistfully. “There will be great presidents again—and the Johnsons are wonderful, they’ve been wonderful to me—but there’ll never be another Camelot again.”
― Christopher Andersen, The Day John Died: 25th Anniversary Edition

“In stark contrast to William’s mother, Kate had never come close to moving in aristocratic circles, much less royal ones. She was an untitled commoner, a descendant of coal miners and factory workers. Kate’s mother, Carole, grew up partly in public housing and was working as a British Airways flight attendant when she met and married fellow airline employee Michael Middleton.”
― Christopher Andersen, Brothers and Wives: Inside the Private Lives of William, Kate, Harry, and Meghan

“book, White House Nannie, was released the following year and became an”
― Christopher Andersen, The Good Son: JFK Jr. and the Mother He Loved

“A heavy drinker who suffered debilitating bouts of depression, Smith claimed that he had been raped not once but twice by one of Prince Charles’s manservants. Smith also insisted that he saw the same manservant engaged in a sexual act with a senior member of the royal family.”
― Christopher Andersen, Brothers and Wives: Inside the Private Lives of William, Kate, Harry, and Meghan

“when they travel, all royals bring along mourning clothes, in case a family member dies and they must rush home for the funeral.”
― Christopher Andersen, The Day Diana Died

“parachuted”
― Christopher Andersen, Game of Crowns: Elizabeth, Camilla, Kate, and the Throne

“One of the most poignant comments during the interview came from Harry, who on earlier occasions had said that “nobody, including William, wants to be king.” Now he seemed to realize something more sinister was afoot. “I was trapped,” he told Oprah, “but I didn’t know I was trapped. Trapped within the system like the rest of the family. My father and my brother are trapped.”
― Christopher Andersen, Brothers and Wives: Inside the Private Lives of William, Kate, Harry, and Meghan

“Jackie remembered being awakened early one morning by Jack in Ashland, Wisconsin. Within moments Steve Smith, the husband of Jack’s sister Jean and one of Jack’s key campaign strategists, knocked at the door. “While they were talking about the news stories and things like that, I packed my bag and got dressed. Neither of us is very talkative so early in the morning, especially me. But I remember something in the car going to the airport in Ashland. I saw a crow and I told Jack we must see another crow, and I told him the jingle I learned as a little girl: ‘One crow sorrow, two crows joy, three crows a girl, four a boy.”
― Christopher Andersen, Jack and Jackie: Portrait of an American Marriage

“The last time Charles saw it, the crown was sitting atop his mother’s coffin.”
― Christopher Andersen, Game of Crowns: Elizabeth, Camilla, Kate, and the Throne

“We dared to think . . . this John Kennedy would live to comb gray hair, with his beloved Carolyn by his side. But like his father,” Ted said, his voice catching, “he had every gift but length of years.”
― Christopher Andersen, The Day John Died: 25th Anniversary Edition

“The Queen’s decisions to voluntarily pay income taxes, to mothball the royal yacht HMS Britannia, and to end primogeniture—the thousand-year-old rule stipulating that males have precedence over females in the line of succession—all grew out of Way Ahead Group deliberations.”
― Christopher Andersen, Brothers and Wives: Inside the Private Lives of William, Kate, Harry, and Meghan

“You can’t comfort the afflicted,” the note read, “without afflicting the comfortable.”
― Christopher Andersen, The Day Diana Died

“miracles”
― Christopher Andersen, The Good Son: JFK Jr. and the Mother He Loved

“Operation Paget would lumber on for two years before finally issuing its 832-page report confirming the findings of the original investigation in France: that the driver of the car in which Dodi and Diana were passengers on the night of August 31, 1997, was drunk; that paparazzi contributed to the crash; and that all three people who died that night failed to buckle up.”
― Christopher Andersen, Brothers and Wives: Inside the Private Lives of William, Kate, Harry, and Meghan

“At least once a year there is a predawn rehearsal of the Queen Mother’s funeral procession through the streets of London.”
― Christopher Andersen, The Day Diana Died

“the first six days of his life”
― Christopher Andersen, The Good Son: JFK Jr. and the Mother He Loved

“Stay loyal to those who love you.”
― Christopher Andersen, The Good Son: JFK Jr. and the Mother He Loved

“IT HAD BEEN ONLY a little more than a year since the world pulled out to celebrate the nuptials of the future king and his strikingly beautiful wife—eventually to become England’s first working-class, university-educated queen. Now, in 2012, Great Britain”
― Christopher Andersen, Brothers and Wives: Inside the Private Lives of William, Kate, Harry, and Meghan

“The biggest disease this world suffers from,” she said, “is the disease of people feeling unloved.”
― Christopher Andersen, The Day Diana Died