Adam Macqueen

And I have really, really noticed a kind of change in tone of the kind of coverage, which a lot of it has come through.

We had the announcement this week that the official biography is going to be written.

A historian has been appointed to that, a historian who originally wrote, best known for the book she wrote about the interregnum, the time when Cromwell was in charge, which is quite an interesting... Anna Kay, that's the right... Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Which is going to be the really interesting one, because she presumably will get access to all of those papers that otherwise remain locked up in the bowels of Windsor Castle with the Thames Valley Police kind of saying, well, could we have a look at them?

Because there's some stuff in there about Prince Andrew.

Maybe she'll get access to them first.

It'll be a bit of a race.

But also there's a big Robert Hardman... How many...

royal books as robert harden written by now but this this one apparently is you know his new his new take on the queen and there is a bit of a new take going on two things i've really really noticed in in in royal coverage just in the last few weeks is there suddenly seemed to be a moment where the columnist decided that beatrice and eugenie were up for being criticized they've it's always been a case of you know you say whatever you want about andrew whatever you want about fergie but the the two princesses you know they shouldn't be blamed for whatever their parents had done and there seemed to be literally one week where suddenly jan moyer and um uh

Yes, yeah.

And in fact, I wrote a column that says, the headline was something like, just pull your finger out, Eugenie, or something, wasn't it?

Which was a sort of different tenor of royal coverage, really.

But the other thing that I've noticed, particularly, I think this is about these new biographies, is that there is now a willingness to criticise the Queen for her role in bringing up Andrew and making him the man that he is in a way that would have been completely unthinkable directly after her death when it was very much kind of like veneration and a long life of service and no criticism whatsoever.

So there is a kind of...

change in in that and i think it's really interesting i'm just looking so i'm writing a book at the moment which is set in 1993 at the height of the war of the wales is and the the difference even with everything i'm saying about andrew now is that the tone of royal reporting then was i mean this was the point where we were getting sort of royal phone calls recorded and turning up with um you know charles and and squidgy who was who was a diana's gentleman friend as well which

There was this extraordinary sort of free-for-all in the tabloids for a while then.

Then when Princess Diana died, it sort of flipped back in and you had that younger generation and very much a feeling that the intrusion into Harry and William's life was completely unacceptable.

And I just think it's sort of slightly starting to swing back in this other direction.

I think it's interesting as well, as you always have to look, particularly for us, is...

who's steering the stories and what's going on there.