"Remember that I wrote a pavane for a dead princess, and not a dead pavane for a princess!"

"If you see me as just the princess then you misunderstand who I am and what I have been through"

"There's nobody in the world like me. I think every decade has an iconic blonde, like Marilyn Monroe or Princess Diana and, right now, I'm that icon"

"I wanted to work; it's not right for a princess of the royal house to be commercial, so Andrew and I decided to make the divorce official so I could go off and get a job"

"I never faked anything. I never played the Disney game of smiling and being a princess and then suddenly having a hard time, saying, 'That isn't who I really am.'"

"Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be"

"I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now that would be interesting"

"I prefer Princess. I would love to be known as a diva later on in life when I've had far more experiences"

"On one night of my debut the Prince of Wales, the Princess, and the duchess of London came to see me. They loved me for what I was and what I gave them"

"I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea"

"You know, Hillary Clinton gives of herself. Princess Diana gave of herself. But they are not saints"