The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee has been greeted with a steady thud of books by familiar names: Robert Hardman; Andrew Morton; Joanna Lumley.
Historians have already published interim reports on the Queen – the volume of the Penguin Monarchs series on Elizabeth II has been out for seven years. Doubtless others are readying final verdicts for the dreaded end of the longest reign in British history.
Naturally, we have no idea what the Queen thinks about any of these published opinions, any more than we know what).