Royal Books: Many books about the royal family promise a lot and deliver little: why Valentine Low's "Courtiers" is different

You could count them in metres, in many metres.

Royal Books: Many books about the royal family promise a lot and deliver little: why Valentine Low's "Courtiers" is different

You could count them in metres, in many metres. And at least it feels like there will be more every week. Those, let's call them Royal books. Nothing, it seems, is pressed between book covers so often and so quickly in many pages in England as the life of the royal family behind the walls of Buckingham Palace. Whoever, and there are many who claim to know every niche, every drawer and every grain of rice in the kitchen behind the royal walls and supposedly also knows what Camilla is said to have whispered about Harry and when Charles is said to have whispered about Harry, does not keep it to himself on the island or maybe tell a newspaper, no, he'll make a book out of it.

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