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Treachery, trysts & tiaras: Taking us behind palace doors, this year s reads are a right royal riot

UK-based literary critic Ysenda Maxtone Graham rounded up a selection of this year s best royal books. Among the picks is Philip: The Final Portrait and Meghan: A Hollywood Princess.

Princess Mary: The First Modern Princess by Elisabeth Basford review

The Print Collector / Getty Images Esteemed royal biographer Hugo Vickers approves of Elisabeth Basford’s biography of Princess Mary, the Princess Royal and the Countess of Harewood. It’s praise indeed from someone with such a rich interest in the subject; after all, Vickers edited James Pope-Hennessy’s The Quest for Queen Mary on the subject of Princess Mary’s mother. Princess Mary: The First Modern Princess is the first full biography of Princess Mary (b. 1897), the only daughter of King George V and Queen Mary, who Basford argues redefined the role of ‘princess’ for the modern age. Ysenda Maxtone Graham, who reviewed the book in the

CRAIG BROWN: From raging Trump to a manic magpie, the pick of 2020

This year has been a strange one for the world of books. Covid meant that bookshops were closed for much of the time, which meant that readers were denied the joy of browsing, and the affiliated pleasure of judging books by their covers. In turn, we authors were denied most of the usual ego-boosts normally associated with a new book: no launch parties, no literary festivals, no search, fruitless or otherwise, for your book on the shelves of Waterstones, no trips to out-of-the-way radio studios for a two-minute interview on BBC Radio Umbrage. The upside of it all was that more books were read than ever before. It was often said that comfort reading was all the rage – but then again, most books provide some form of comfort. 

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