royal family. the bbc s special correspondent katty kay went to meet her. how many years for the new yorker? seven. from her new york apartment tina brown keeps a close eye on events in buckingham palace. those 3000 miles give this british american author are different, more global perspective on the royal family. for her new best selling book the palace paper, she interviewed over 320 people to tell the story of the women of the house of windsor. brown herself has met the queen several times and was awarded the commander of the british empire for contribution to journalism. she has edited both tatler magazine and the new yorker. she knows the clintons well. she has metjustin trudeau, theresa may. suffice to say you don t get a lot better connected than tina brown in politics or in all things royal, which is why we went to visit her in manhattan. congratulations on the book, it is great. i passed a very delightful plane ride from london reading it. when you look as we celebra
its rebels, its miscreants, its winners and losers, like any family. where i think they are lucky is that in charles they have a very decent statesman like person and they have in william and kate, i think, a remarkably lucky air and his choice of wife has turned out to be a critical, extraordinarily successful addition to the family. so there is addition to the family. so there is a real piece of luck there that again the airwilliam, a real piece of luck there that again the air william, has got some of the things the queen has got. he is a judicious person. he is a cautious person, he is a decent person. and temperamentally he is in a so much better position to take it over than his younger brother harry, who would have been, if he had been the elder son. i think the cambridges are a very lucky future for the house of windsor. i don t