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Sep 2022
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Jonathan Meades: Closing Time for the Fi...

THE LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS
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Writer and filmmaker Jonathan Meades introduces and reads his review of Tina Brown's book about the royal family, The Palace Papers, from April this year.

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