How Did You Find Out You're Writing About the Royals?

I wasn't brought up in a particularly royalist family, but my parents both really loved diana. I thought it was nuts when i came into politics, because people are like bowling up to me and handing me stories on a plate. You're having to fight for the crumbs of a royal environment that is adverse to any publicity at all if it's not positive. Andyo, you do look at yourself and think, why? But then, as i always say, i'm not a royalist. I'm a realist. And if there's an appetite for these stories, we must write them. So that's how i got into that. It was very quiet until k