This week Phil is delighted to welcome super well-informed writer Valentine Low back onto the podcast. Valentine has a new book out this week on the relationship between the royal family and British governments. It's full of juicy and revelatory stories - such as Queen Elizabeth intervening in the Scottish independence referendum, and a teenage Queen Camilla fighting off an attacker with a well aimed shoe!

Before that Phil discusses Prince Harry's recent visit to Britain, his meeting with King Charles and rumours that he might make a film about his mother - including allegations about her death not being an accident - perhaps in competition with another film to be made by Prince William! What's going on?

Valentine's book is available here in our own bookshop...

https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/power-and-the-palace-the-inside-story-of-the-monarchy-and-10-downing-street-valentine-low/a714526ec1f0279e?ean=9781035418817&next=t&aid=12054&next=t

Several Australia listeners have asked for a full list of where Phil is speaking there in October. And so here are some opportunities to see him and say 'G'Day'.

Melbourne with Prof Clare Wright 10 October...

https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1424756

Day Long conference in Melbourne 11 October...

https://historyguild.org/fighting-to-the-finish-australia-in-1945-strategy-victory-and-legacy-conference-melbourne-book-now/

Sydney with Chris Masters 12 October...

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/author-talk-1945-the-reckoning-phil-craig-tickets-1248763849289

Sydney with Michaela Kalowski 12 October...

https://events.humanitix.com/author-talk-and-book-launch-phil-craig-1945-the-reckoning

Canberra with Christine Helliwell 15 October...

https://www.awm.gov.au/the-end-of-the-second-world-war

There's also information and extracts from Phil's new book here...

https://sites.google.com/view/1945thereckoning/home

You can order his book now on Amazon UK and Amazon Australia, India and NZ - and it is available all around the world as an e-book and an audio book...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/1945-Reckoning-Empire-Struggle-World/dp/139971449X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=#

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