Tina Brown

I'm in London and having a pretty great time, I have to say.

Well, the problem is, I fear we're not.

What you saw really in the last couple of weeks was the sort of result, in a sense, of the kind of conflict and dithering really of the king who didn't want to go as far as he had to go, sort of pushed by public opinion.

I mean, it would have been much better if he'd simply stripped him of all of his honors originally, you know, or rather that had been done in 2019 when his mother was there.

Instead of which, you know, it's been allowed to kind of bleed out in one episode after the next.

I do think that he actually should have left the country.

But how it's all going to work out, I don't think they've really solved it, no.

It's better than it was.

No, I mean, he would have only his secrets to sell, essentially.

And they can't allow that to happen.

And the same is true of Fergie, who is such a wild, loose cannon.

So they have to be kept sort of under control.

But it's pretty hard for them to do that.

And I think when William is king, you know, I think he might be even tougher on the situation.

I don't quite know what he could do to make it even tougher, but I think he will be.

Are you a royalist?

I'd certainly much rather have a royal family than, you know, a republic.

I've come to see that actually countries which do have a monarchy tend to be more stable.

And I think that, you know, they do rally the nation.

They can change the mood by their sort of ability to just be above politics.