Republic Tuesday: a year of royal articles

For some extra reading over the holiday break, here’s a personal selection of articles about monarchy and the royal family from 2009: Peter Preston: “The trouble with Harry” (Guardian, 11 January 2009) The prince is in another fine mess, but his problems aren’t entirely of his own making Joan Smith: “Manufacturing the myth of monarchy” [...]

Treasury gaffe reveals Charles secretly lobbied for tax breaks

An astonishing blunder by The Treasury reveals that Prince Charles secretly lobbied the government for tax breaks on expenses incurred by Princes William and Harry. John Cross, who writes the blog ‘confirm or deny‘, has uncovered what hides behind redacted sections of a memorandum written to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alastair Darling, and released [...]