Alec Douglas-Home

"I suppose, when you come to think of it, he is the fourteenth Mr Wilson."

"Douglas-Home: Can you not make me look better than I do on television? I look rather scraggy, like a ghost. Make-up girl: No. Douglas-Home: Why not? Make-up girl: Because you have a head like a skull. Douglas-Home: Doesnt everyone have a head like a skull? Make-up girl: No."

"In 1940, he was diagnosed with spinal tuberculosis and was immobilised for two years. Afterwards, he said that it was the first time in medical history that they had succeeded in inserting a backbone into a politician."

"No, because I do my sums with matchsticks."

"Now you can see me in the flesh, and I dont really look as Im made to look on television."

"This is a counter-revolution. After half a century of democratic advance, of social revolution, of rising expectations, the whole process has ground to a halt with a fourteenth Earl."