...And What Do You Do?: What the royal family don't want you to know

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They are, to all intents and purposes, a very ordinary group of people privileged with outrageous wealth and entitlement. We are led to believe that our constitutional monarch has no influence over what legislation is debated and the royal assent, a rubber stamping exercise is proof of that. For all their foibles and idiosyncrasies, the royal family wield considerable influence and yet rather than facing the scrutiny their position merits, they enjoy sickeningly obsequious coverage which reports their activities with breathless awe. Production: Our production team work closely with designers to ensure everything on screen can be translated to a printed book.

This anachronism may have sat well in Medieval times when the largely uneducated masses needed a sense of "magical thinking" around their King/Queen much as the cult of modern celebrity provides distraction and targeted longing for the masses. Following the 2010 general election, he was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport, then Minister of State for Crime Prevention at the Home Office.Or Princess Margaret getting stoned as well as drunk on Mustique and at private parties in Chelsea, waking up in men's beds whose name she couldn't remember. Vikki Moynes, commissioning editor at Viking, which is an imprint of Penguin General, works on commercial and upmarket fiction – from laugh-out-loud romcoms like Emily Henry’s Book Lovers to intoxicating, compulsive tales of deadly secrets like Heather Darwent’s The Things We Do To Our Friends.

Norman Baker goes behind palace walls to shine a much-needed light on this most secretive of institutions and expose the greed, hypocrisy and – yes – disregard for public money which keep it afloat. 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.

The author provides a well structured analysis of various aspects of the current Britsih Royal Family backed up with facts and figures and selected anecdotal evidence. We ask you to please cancel your ticket if you can no longer make it so we may allow another guest to visit. As I paid little heed to the individuals concerned most of the mindless tittle tattle has passed me by. A system based on merit may not sound like a revolutionary concept, but if taken to its logical conclusion, would cut off from future honours those, who would be given them only because of birthright and their place in society, including, of course, members of the royal family. Former Minister of State and current Privy Counsellor Norman Baker breaks ranks to explore the wider role the royals play in society, including the link with House of Lords reform and the constitutional position of the monarch.