Royal Leftovers

My recent piece for the I newspaper I’ve read hundreds of books about the royals – these are the 11 best has been tremendously productive for the blog. It led me to find out more about Barbara Cartland, producing two more posts and huge interest from my lovely readers. It was generally a most enjoyable project, though as I was keeping up with the latest royal news, the King and Diana’s brother having the same name, Charles obv, was occasionally confusing in the reading. Bad planning. The list was ‘best’ books about the Royals, fair enough, so I was able to miss out some terrible ones: including those where I enjoyed reading the harsh reviews - ‘flimsy and sycophantic’ as it might be, or ‘grimly fawning’ - more than the books. But I will look here at one that didn’t make the cut, Revenge by Tom Bower: This is what I would have said about it: Tom Bower’s Revenge, 2022, a relentless attack on Harry and Meghan, should be used in media studies classes. Not because it’s good – it’s terrible…