
Jonathan Meades: Closing Time for the Firm
The LRB Podcast
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The Duchess of York and the Dunning Cruger Effect
Diana was manipulative, adroit and impressively active in determining how she was to be perceived. The frail truce with the press which diana achieved has not endured. She outmanoeuvred charles, who, as brown puts it, spun furiously. He was just less good at it. It depends on a belief in the sacrilisation of an immensely wealthy human whose long life has been devoted to being rather than doing. Prince Andrew complained that people don't pay us royals more respect.
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