Windsor knots

ina Brown concludes The Palace Papers, her latest book about the British royal family: “The fascination of monarchy is that its themes repeat themselves because its protagonists are earthly.” This is a very Tina Brown way of saying – after more than 500 exhaustive pages of Windsor arcan a – “Oh well, we’re all human.” In fact, I think the fascination of the monarchy is that no matter how many books are written about them, and no matter how hagiographic they intend to be, there’s always some new information within that proves they’re even more repulsive than you originally