Tina Brown, author of The Palace Papers, says monarch’s image stems from time before ‘great media age’
She told an audience at Hay festival: “It was the era of deference. She could develop that great mystique and say nothing which took enormous discipline and sense. Her sagacity has been not giving the interviews, but it’s much harder now.”
“I think the answer is as long as he doesn’t go and give a great big interview on television at any point. Let’s face it, every time one of them has done that it has been inconvenient.”Photograph: David Levenson/Getty Images Noting that the platinum jubilee weekend is “our chance to say goodbye to” the Queen, Brown was sanguine thatSign up to First Edition, our free daily newsletter – every weekday morning at 7am BST
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