Drama, comedy, tragedy – even catharsis, the release of emotion. And that’s just from real-life footage of the actual royal family. Oh yes, and then there’s also the fifth season of The Crown. As the Netflix drama tackles new territory, in the 1990s and well within living memory, historian Sarah Gristwood considers the practical and ethical questions around on-screen portrayals of the recent royals…
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In addition to her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel contributed for years to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she found it. A MEMOIR OF MY FORMER SELF collects the finest of this writing over four decades. Her subjects are wide-ranging, sharply observed and beautifully rendered. She discusses nationalism and her own sense of belonging; our dream life popping into our conscious life; the many themes that feed into her novels - revolutionary France, psychics, Tudor England; and other novelists, from Jane Austen to V.S. Naipaul. She writes fiercely and heartbreakingly about the battles with her health that she endured as a young woman, and the stifling years she found herself living in Saudi Arabia.