Symposia can say that unlike most royal watchers she is no social climber but definitely feels that with so-called royalty human life is "writ inordinately large", and becomes an object of fascination in a humdrum world. It actually reflects a sort of novelist's attitude.

In Virginia Woolf's review of the Queen of Roumania's autobiography she wrote of her own irrational fascination with royal animals living in cages noting that one should "take common sense for a walk through the streets of London on the Duke of Kent's wedding-day". More later from her golden pen about the subject.