Despite all their recent family scandals, Beatrice and Eugenie attended a high profile royal wedding last week. And Prince William made sure the press could see his friendly feelings toward them both.

So is it right that these two young royals should - or could - be back into the fold, and what value could they bring to a rather under-staffed royal family? Or should they be made to stand outside the inner circle as a consequence of their own alleged mistakes, and the sins of their parents?

Phil is then joined by Emma Southon, an expert on Ancient Rome who spoke on the podcast two year ago about Roman women. Now she has turned her attention to Rome’s millions of slaves and - in this very entertaining and enlightening conversation - she has a LOT to say about their lives and how historians have tended to romanticise them in the past.

Her new book SERVUS can be bought here - in our very own bookshop!...

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Phil has recently spoken very positively about the way King Charles is handling his reign. But there’s a story about his earlier - and much more controversial - life that’s hardly ever been told. In his bachelor days and as a young man recently married to Diana Spencer, Charles was heavily under the influence of some seriously strange - even dangerous - people. So who were the men who shaped the mindset of Britain’s future King, and psychologically prepared him for marriage and public life? You’ll be surprised!

Phil is then joined by young academic Amilia Gillies to discuss the weird and wonderful world of another royal court - that of King James (the 1st of England and 6th of Scotland). It was a colourful and highly scandalous time, full of larger than life characters and some very naughty poetry!

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Yes, Andrew is back once again with news of the paperback of his hugely successful book ENTITLED, which includes a new, long and scandal-packed chapter all about the astonishing events of the last 6 months. Andrew is at his feisty and funny best in this rather hair-raising interview with Phil.

You can get the new book here - at our own bookshop!...

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Phil has never been a fan of King Charles - especially in the Diana era - but should he reassess in the light of the recent royal tour of the USA, and his undoubted diplomatic triumphs there?

Phil is then joined by writer and friend Antonia Senior to discuss her gripping new book - already on the best seller lists - and how it brings the story of the Cambridge Spies to life in a completely new way. Spoiler alert - she doesn’t like them one bit!

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The History Book Buffs Podcast

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The Princess Diana Documentary Phil mentioned in the show...

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Former Times royal correspondent Valentine Low joins the pod once again to talk about Harry and Meghan's current ‘pseudo royal’ visit to Australia, the state of the royal family and his upcoming book on relations between the palace and the press across many years and many reigns. 

Valentine’s most recent book is available here at our own scandal mongers bookstore...

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As the testimony of Prince Harry’s latest law suit against the tabloids concludes, we learn that Harry himself was sending flirty messages to journalists. Has he sunk his own case?

Phil is then joined by Prof Mark Stoyle, an expert on 16th and 17th Century Britain to talk about the world of Samuel Pepys, one of the greatest - and most honest - diarists of all time. Phil and Mark explore the filth and the frolics of Pepy’s London in an entertaining mix of social history and salacious scandal!

Mark’s fantastic history books can be found on Amazon and this is the latest...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Murderous-Midsummer-Western-Rising-1549-ebook/dp/B0B8DXLH56

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Everyone is talking about the new Tom Bower book on Meghan and Harry - and Phil is no exception. But how much of it is real, and how much is simply ‘deranged gossip’, as one critic called it. As a former royal biographer, Phil explains how damaging personal royal stories like these come out…and why!

Then this week’s guest is Simon Dinsdale a very entertaining ex police detective who took his experience solving high profile murder cases and turned it into a new life writing crime novels. Simon talks very well about how policing has changed during his lifetime. Sometimes for good…but also sometimes for bad. 

Simon Dinsdale, the author of the Christian Dane crime novels

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Phil is joined this week by historian Caroline Sharples to discuss her brand new book on the facts of Hitler’s death - but also what she calls ‘the emotional history’ of an event that was hoped for by many, feared by some, and pre-planned by many people, including Hitler himself.

So just how did the world learn of this historic event - and how was it proved to the satisfaction of global opinion. Hint - it involves the tyrant’s teeth!

You can buy Carolne's book here...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Long-Death-Adolf-Hitler-Investigative/dp/0300284918

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Phil begins with his reaction to the latest royal news as the police finally move to arrest Britain’s disgraced former prince Andrew Mountbatten Windsor.

He’s then joined by writer Neil Root to talk about the incredible life, and untimely death, of Peter Rachman, the most notorious landlord in 1950 and 60s London. His life intersected with many of the dangerous - but also glamorous - men and women of his time, as the city boomed and then prepared to 'swing’, as told in Neil’s excellent book on criminal and social history, called SLUMLORD...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Slumlord-Rachman-Post-war-London-Underworld-ebook/dp/B0G2SKC4YY

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Phil is very much occupied by Australia this week.

He starts by sharing his thoughts on a recent boycott of an important Writer's Festival in Adelaide because of a row about open support for Hamas and its murderous actions on 7/10. The boycott was by mostly left-of-centre wing writers and broadcasters, some of whom Phil has worked with and knows well. He doesn’t think they were right!

Then - in the week that Prince Andrew finally leaves Royal Lodge - Phil turns to the state of the British royal family’s relationships with Australia, in the company of lawyer, broadcaster and long-term royal observer Caroline Di Russo.

From the rise and fall of republicanism through Australia’s love affair with Diana Princess of Wales and then its (brief!) embrace of Prince Harry in his ‘Larkin Prince’ phase, this is a fascinating convo (as they would say in Australia) about royalty, politics and culture down under.

There’s information and extracts from Phil’s new book here...

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You can order his book 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..

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