Another week, another round of royal revelations. Following swiftly on from the publication of Andrew Lownie’s bestselling denigration of the Duke and Duchess of York – Entitled , there is now another tell-all account of the royal family: Valentine Low’s Power and the Palace. It has recently been serialised in the Times (appropriately enough, given that Low is that newspaper’s royal correspondent) and purports to offer a well-sourced and factually accurate account of the relationship between politics and the royal family over the past few years.

We can expect a steady stream of such volumes for some time to come

Low is a serious writer, whose excellent 2022 book Courtiers was a particular standout in an often tawdry genre, and so the stories within Power and the Palace sho

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