Helmut Kohls candid views on the British establishment revealed in book

Former German chancellor critical of royal family and says Margaret Thatcher used to fall asleep at summits

Margaret Thatcher used to nod off at geopolitical summits, Prince Philip was a simpleton and the marriage between Diana and Charles was an idiotic affair, according to the former German chancellor Helmut Kohl, whose candid assessment of the British establishments behaviour in the 90s given during a series of interviews have been published in a book.

Legacy: The Kohl Transcripts, published against the wishes of the ex-chancellor, is the result of more than 600 hours of interviews between Kohl and journalist Heribert Schwan, who has previously ghostwritten the first two volumes of his biography.

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