Month: August 2026

Tom Bower’s “Betrayal” Serialized in The Times Ahead of Publication, Continuing a Very British Tradition of Reading the Juiciest Bits First

 Isla Campbell  August 15, 2026

The biography’s pre-publication excerpts reveal a media strategy as calculated as anything found within the book’s actual royal palace intrigue…

King’s Message Following Venezuela Earthquake Reveals the Genuinely Delicate Art of Royal Condolence Writing

 Isla Campbell  August 15, 2026

Striking the right tone between formal head-of-state sympathy and genuine personal concern requires a specific diplomatic skill palace correspondence teams…

Sovereign Grant Report’s Annual Publication Reveals the Genuinely Unglamorous Accounting Underpinning Royal Public Funding

 Isla Campbell  August 15, 2026

Behind the ceremonial pageantry lies a formal annual financial statement that reads considerably more like a corporate report than anything…

King’s Bookshelf Initiative Marks Its Fifth Anniversary, Founded at the Height of Lockdown With What Now Reads as Genuinely Modest Ambition

 Isla Campbell  August 15, 2026

A reading promotion project born from isolation has quietly persisted for half a decade, outlasting considerably more heavily publicized pandemic-era…

The Satire Site That Gets Closer To Royal Family Territory Than It Admits

 Isla Campbell  August 14, 2026

Eton College VIP reviewed for crownandclown.uk readers who follow the monarchy closely Eton College has educated a genuinely remarkable number…

I Spent a Morning With the Professional Royal-Watchers Outside the Palace Gates, and Their Dedication Is Genuinely Something to Behold

 Isla Campbell  August 11, 2026

Camping chairs, union jack bunting, and a level of scheduling knowledge that would put most diplomatic correspondents to shame. A…

The Souvenir Shops Near the Palace Are a Genuinely Fascinating Window Into What Tourists Think Britain Actually Is

 Isla Campbell  August 11, 2026

Corgi tea towels, commemorative mugs for events that haven’t happened yet, and an entire economy built on a slightly exaggerated…

Trooping the Colour Traffic Diversions Nearly Broke Me This Year, and I Say That With Genuine Affection for the Occasion Itself

 Isla Campbell  August 11, 2026

An hour and forty minutes to travel what should have taken fifteen, and yet I would, if pressed, admit I’d…

Why Do We Still Care This Much? A Genuinely Honest Attempt to Answer My Own Question

 Isla Campbell  August 11, 2026

Six years into covering this beat, I still don’t have a fully satisfying answer for why any of this continues…

The Corgi Statue Debate Outside My Local Pub Has Been Raging for Three Years and Shows No Sign of Resolution

 Isla Campbell  August 11, 2026

A genuinely small, genuinely stupid, genuinely wonderful piece of ongoing local London theatre, and I mean that as the highest…