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Book Review

Much To Do About Nothing She is a very rich woman, some thirty million a year, but
also parsimonious and there is frequent discontent with
Tina Brown. The Palace Papers, Inside the House of the portions. Those who serve her are called working
Windsor—the Truth and the Turmoil. New York: Crown, royals. Ms. Tina Brown’s narrative is a plunge into the
2022. aristocratic classes of contemporary England. The cast
The Crown, Netflix series (four seasons). of characters enjoy a social status that goes back if not a
“With all my heart, I’ll gossip at this feast.” Shakespeare thousand years--at least several hundred. The story is of
“At once Rumour runs through Libya’s great cities— the shifting status, who is in who is out, up or down in
Rumour the swiftest of all evils. Speed lends her strength, the court circles.
and she wins vigor as she goes; small at first through fear, Camilla, we learn, most enamored of jewelry, is a
soon she mounts up to heaven, and walks the ground with case study of someone whose status has changed many
head hidden in the clouds. Mother Earth, provoked to times. An original flame of the Prince of Wales, she was
anger against the gods, brought her forth last, they say, discarded in favor of the palace’s preference for Diana
as sister to Coeus and Enceladus, swift of foot and fleet Spencer, a very pedigreed and seemingly suitable match.
of wing, a monster awful and huge, who for the many Firm, probably would be more suitably termed The But it did not prove to be “a marriage of true minds,” and
feathers in her body has as many watchful eyes beneath— Studio because most of its accomplishment are veritable Charles and Camilla strayed back together in headline
wondrous to tell—as many tongues, as many sounding performances displaying the pomp and standing of clamoring form. Now middle aged and married, Camilla
mouths, as many pricked-up ears. Virgil, Aeneid the monarch. As with the Academy Awards, there are has been given her proper accord, in 2021 as Royal Lady
“Terence, this is stupid stuff.” A.E. Housman frequent shows in which HM dispenses honors, titles, of the Most Noble Order of the Garter and then 2022
and money to family and notable individuals who have finally the ultimate honorific, Queen Consort, when her
By Dr. Ronald J. Meyers made a contribution to the country acknowledging the husband becomes King. Charles comes through as a bit
perpetuation of her glory. They are required to make eccentric like his father, but also more of a progressive
The great Augustan obeisance-- bow or curtsey before the monarch or
poet, Virgil’s representation whomever she enlists, her son, daughter, or grandsons. Book Review on page 7
of gossip as Rumour in
Aeneid, from the first
century B.C.E., suggests
that this phenomenon is
far from something new
and modern; not gabble
adduced to by Shakespeare
and A.E. Housman, but
rather something quite toxic--even in Roman times.
In rendering rumour in his Roman epic regarding
Dido Queen of Carthage’s affair with the Trojan prince
Aeneas, Virgil discloses the damage to her virtuous
reputation among her countrymen. Was Virgil himself
perhaps reflecting upon his own damaged reputation
among his countryman who might have been jealous
of his brilliant literary skill and high standing with the
Emperor Augustus? The “many watchful eyes” amplified
by “as many sounding mouths” to “as many pricked up
ears” far removed from the innocuous standard of idle
gossip which have recently encompassed movie stars
Johnny Depp and Amber Heard. Tina Brown, a respected
journalist, one time editor of both Vanity Fair and The ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT SELLING
New Yorker, now a full time resident of the U.S., probes
Great Britain’s most famous first family; and engages in OR RENTING YOUR HOME?
dutiful and excessive gossip which would taint even the
most receptive ears. Though gossip is not without political
purpose; its use by malefactors to cast aspersions and to
destroy, is evident today on both sides of our common I am working with buyers and renters who are motivated, serious, and qualified!
Atlantic pond.
The British Monarchy, currently referred to as The
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