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

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Baker's book certainly lives up to it's title, I learned much of what the Royal Family and the fawning government don't want me to know. But, while that's true to some degree, the publisher's role (and indeed, that of the editor) is much broader and much more intensive. Nice to know the Queen's collection of baubles, art and antiques are also worth billions, and I do mean billions. His overall conclusion is that the Royal Family still wields considerable influence behind the scenes and, considering themselves above the law, they are aided and abetted by whichever Government of the day is in power which ensures that the rules that apply to everyone else are routinely skewed to benefit the Royal Family’s own personal interests.

The books featured on this site are aimed primarily at readers aged 13 or above and therefore you must be 13 years or over to sign up to our newsletter. For all their foibles and idiosyncrasies, the royal family wield considerable influence – and yet rather than facing the scrutiny their position merits, they enjoy sickeningly obsequious coverage which reports their activities with breathless awe.As an aside: I am from Hungary and have the extremely bad luck of being able to boast about "unfailingly supporting" one of the most corrupt governments in Europe (and the world). Other issues discussed include the large number of crown properties that the public gets to pay for, the private planes the lower royals insist on using. Like TV, film, theatre and all other creative industries, a huge amount of work goes into the creation of the final, glossy product - in our case, a book. We could begin with the antiquated and wholly preposterous notion that it still exists for one or we could deconstruct its actual role and benefit to the people it actually represents in the 21st Century, for example.

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. With gorgeous illustrations and descriptive words that are fun to say, this is a board book young children will enjoy looking at.And here the story starts to stutter, it really should have worked better but for some reason it just doesn’t hang right. I had dismissed this originally as it had been touted by Richard and Judy and appeared to be an American crime book.

It will be interesting to see how this parasitic institution fares after the present Queen's passing. Wills are public documents in the UK and have always been open for inspection as an essential safeguard to prevent theft and malpractice. In this audiobook, former government minister Norman Baker argues that the British public deserves better than this puerile diet. Or Princess Margaret getting stoned as well as drunk on Mustique and at private parties in Chelsea, waking up in men's beds whose name she couldn't remember. is a hard-hitting analysis of the royal family, exposing its extravagant use of public money and the highly dubious behaviour of some among its ranks, whilst being critical of the knee-jerk sycophancy shown by the press and politicians.And they do all this with their hand out still, forever claiming poverty, and receiving hundreds of millions from the taxpayer, while benefiting as private individuals at the same time on land ownership and all of the other questionable dealings they have gotten themselves into. Their very existence puts a giant dildo on the face of Britain’s idea of democracy, fairness and equality. I have been for as long as I can remember unconvinced about the value of the British monarchy, for me the institution had about it a great negativity. Following the 2010 general election, he was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport, then Minister of State for Crime Prevention at the Home Office.