Philip Hensher

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

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]
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