Today in Focus Series
GUARDIAN PODCAST
Tina Brown, author of The Palace Papers, on the
importance of this jubilee to the royal family and how the Queen has maintained
public support through her 70 years on the throne despite many crises
Presented by Nosheen Iqbal with Tina Brown; produced
by Rose de Larrabeiti and Rudi Zygadlo; executive producers Elizabeth Cassin
and Phil Maynard
Thu 2 Jun 2022 03.00 BST
During the
Queen’s 70-year reign, the royal family has been thrust ever farther into the
public glare as an age of deference gave way to tabloid stings, 24-hour news
and social media. The family has been through tragedy and scandal, but its head
has maintained a public inscrutability.
It is this
defiant ability to remain silent on matters of the personal and political that
has been key to her consistently high public approval, argues Tina Brown,
author of The Palace Papers. But as she tells Nosheen Iqbal, it hasn’t always
served her well. The death of Diana pitched her reign into crisis and in more
recent years the scandal surrounding Prince Andrew and the exile of the
Sussexes has overshadowed a jubilee year that she will mark for the first time
without her late husband, Prince Philip.
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