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

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Most members of the Royal Family still charter flights or helicopter flights at public expense instead of using much cheaper methods such as scheduled flights, trains or even cars. However, since 1911, the Royal Family has been allowed to ‘seal’ selected wills – or declare them private – in the interests of upholding the dignity of the Crown. This book will challenge the sanity of even the most ardent Union Jack-waving royalists amongst you.

The royal family is the original Coronation Street – a long running soap opera with the occasional real coronation thrown in. Either way, the easiest way to think of any imprint is that it has a specific brand identity within the publishing world, in terms of the kinds of books they publish.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. The members of the royal family have more than a 100 military medals and decorations between them … to be fair, a smattering of those do actually reflect active military service.

This has been quite an engrossing and eye-opening book to listen to, especially with the jubilee celebrations starting in the UK and the gloomy reports on the economy (not just those of the UK) whose effects every one of us are feeling keenly, well. So Margaret Thatcher, Conservative, made her husband one, thereby ensuring her son Mark, accused of racketeering and fraud and arrested in connection with an attempted coup in Equatorial Guinea, would be a Lord and sit in Parliament in fine robes with expenses from the taxpayer as would his son and son's son ad infinitum unless someone does something and we get a second elected house. We also hear of some uncomfortable secrets regarding the royals such as Edward VIII being a nazi sympathiser and the treatment and selection of royal servants.Our contributors are encouraged to go forth and find distinctive visions that startle us, rural or urban, modern or prehistoric, industrial, post-industrial, fantastical, natural, political, however they come. 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. The Queen presides over a merit-free awards system that maintains a top-down mediaeval hierarchy of court favourites that has existed for 700 years.