Although she is not legally obliged to pay tax, she ‘chose’ (under public pressure following the Windsor Castle fire) to start voluntarily paying income and capital gains tax in 1992. You Do You helps you shake off those expectations, say f**k perfect, start looking out for number one and keep on with your badass self. The pageantry and the spectacle and random births and weddings every ten years are all fair and well and what they do for tourism but they cannot decide what they are conceptually. What with it’s revelations, unfettered consequences and dirt flinging from the public gallery of the House of Commons via ourselves, the kneeling subjects often oblivious and cowtowing.

The detail of your special relationship resonates with me as I too had a beautiful brother with Downs. It is a clear-eyed assessment and examines the royal family in terms of its strengths, weaknesses, and eccentricities. And they do all this with their hand out still, forever claiming poverty, and receiving hundreds of millions from the taxpayer, while benefiting as private individuals at the same time on land ownership and all of the other questionable dealings they have gotten themselves into.Much will depend on how Charles III behaves and what the British public think about him and Camilla in their new roles. There are the detailed tax dodges and beneficial schemes all the family members benefit from aside what we give them, not to mention the dubious business contacts and the way they whore themselves and their titles and status to the highest bidder. His art has been used by both Norwich and St Paul’s Cathedral and his range of Christmas cards helped raise funds for the NHS during the pandemic.

Very interesting subject matter, covering a very big timeline, written in a serious and funny matter where appropriate. Norman Baker has uncovered so much information and goes into all the detail - the inner workings of the past and present; royal culture, finance and their relationships. Fully updated with new material on Prince Andrew, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the paperback edition of the acclaimed polemic.

And since us mere plebian tax payers foot the bill for them, I am actually pretty annoyed at what goes on behind the doors of the palace. A note of my own here is that when Coronavirus isn't halting industry, the West End actually brings in more money per annum than any other industry in Britain, including the Royal Family. Beukes is clearly moving into John Connolly territory and is going to do well with great writing and imagination.