Jubilee

1952: ' It's time for a change ... it's time I changed ... I want to move into the 20th century ... even if it is half-over.'

1953: 'Well, it's like a sort of Sunday, innit? We always have egg and fried bread on Sunday. I bet the Queen will have a cooked breakfast this morning!'

1954/55 : 'When I think of what " going to the pictures" meant before the war ... everybody used to go then, at least once a week ... some people twice and three times. Long queues, Wednesdays and Saturdays ...'

1956/57: 'If he's on the level, this is the intelligence coup of the decade ... but if it isn't ... we'd be walking straight into the biggest trap in a great deal longer.'

1958/59: 'I wouldn't be upset. I don't think they sleep in ditches. I'm sure Canon Collins doesn't.'

1960-61: I've spent the last week with the lawyers and the tax wallahs. They won't budge ... We're going to have to sell Castle Meryon.'

1962/63: 'There's never been a time for people like you and me to make it quite like there is now. You want to be a photographer. Well I think you could be a very good one, but you've got to put yourself about a bit ... '

1964: 'There's good girls and there's bad girls. But when good girls make a mistake, they've a right to a second chance. I don't care what anyone says.'

Summer 1966 : 'You've got a bit carried away, haven't you Bill? Just because your name's Ramsey ... don't you think you're carrying tribal loyalty a little too far?'

1969: 'Edwin, he's playing political games - which the law would call treason and he has to be stopped.'

1971: 'I don't mind having to fight the rest of Fleet Street ... but when you've got to fight every inch of the way on your own paper, it's not worth it ...'

1973/76 '... I have seen too much of people changing themselves about.... and visiting is one thing, but life over breakfast tables is quite another.'

1977: 'You don't think we'll ever regret it, do you ... Canada, I mean ... emigrating?'