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Behind the Throne is a cracking read about a neglected subject – the royal household

6 October 2018

9:00 AM

6 October 2018

9:00 AM

Never judge a book by its cover. To look at, this is a coffee-table book with shiny pages which make it too heavy to take on Ryanair, but that does it a disservice. In reality it is a shrewdly observed and engagingly written account of a neglected subject — the royal household.

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