Today in Focus Series
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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