You can make anything up about the royal family and it will be printed as fact

There are no compelling new witnesses or discoveries in Tina Brown’s much-hyped book, but plenty of repeated implausible gossip

From magazine issue: 30 April 2022

Models of dignity, duty and good sense: the Queen with the Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Cornwall and the Cambridges on a visit to the Eden Project during the G7 summit in Cornwall last June. [Getty Images]

issue 30 April 2022

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Philip Hensher

You can make anything up about the royal family and it will be printed as fact
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There are quite a few things that Tina Brown doesn’t know: what ‘jejune’ means; when Louis XIV came to the throne; what the passive voice in prose is (not ‘recollections may vary’); what members of the aristocracy are called (Lady Romsey becomes Lady Penelope Romsey) or what members of the royal family are called (the ‘Dowager Duchess of Gloucestershire’ puts in an appearance).Another