Pandora Sykes Meets Tina Brown - Live on Stage in London | How To Academy

Tue, 3 May 2022

7:15 pm - 8:30 pm GMT

Conway Hall, London

Pandora Sykes Meets Tina Brown – Live on Stage in London

Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil

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Can the monarchy survive? Drawing on exclusive inside access, Tina Brown joins us with the riveting inside story of the Royal Family from Diana’s death to the present.

In her New York Times bestselling biography of Princess Diana, The Diana Chronicles, former Vanity Fair and New Yorker editor Tina Brown wrote the definitive account of the extraordinary life and tragic death of the Princess of Wales. Now she joins Pandora Sykes live on stage to reveal how the royal family reinvented itself after the traumatic years when Diana’s blazing celebrity ripped through the House of Windsor like a comet.

‘Never again’, became Queen Elizabeth II’s mantra shortly after Diana’s death. More specifically, there could never be ‘another Diana’ – a member of the family whose global popularity upstaged, outshone, and posed an existential threat to the British monarchy.

Tina will take us on a tour de force journey, showing the Queen’s stoic resolve as she coped with the passing of Princess Margaret, the Queen Mother and her partner for seven decades, Prince Philip, and the triumph of her Jubilee years even as the family dramas raged around her.

She will explore Prince Charles’s determination to make Camilla his wife, the tension between William and Harry who are on ‘different paths’, the ascendance Kate Middleton, the disturbing allegations surrounding Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein, and Harry and Meghan’s stunning decision to ‘step back’ as senior royals. Despite the fragile monarchy’s best efforts, ‘never again’ seems fast approaching.

Tina says: “This is, above all, the survival story of a family in which the pre-eminence of duty is in constant tension with the very human desires of love, ambition and the longing for escape.”

Full of powerful revelations, nuanced details and searing insight, this In Conversation event with one of the world’s most distinguished journalists will irrevocably our perceptions and understanding of the Royal Family.

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Tina Brown

Bestselling Author and Editor

Tina Brown is an award-winning writer and editor and founder of the Women in the World Summit. Between 1979 and 2001 she was the editor of Tatler, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker. Her 2007 biography of the Princess of Wales, The Diana Chronicles, topped the New York Times bestseller list. In 2008 she founded The Daily Beast. The Vanity Fair Diaries, her memoir covering the years she edited that magazine, was published in 2017. She lives in New York City.

Pandora Sykes

Author, Journalist and Podcaster

Pandora Sykes is a journalist and broadcaster. A former columnist and editor at The Sunday Times Style magazine, she has written for publications including The Telegraph, The Guardian, GQ and Elle and published two books, How Do We Know We’re Doing It Right and What Writers Read: 35 Writers on Their Favourite Book. She now runs a popular weekly Substack, Books+Bits. She is the creator of numerous No.1 podcasts, including The High Low and Doing It Right and is the host of The Missing, an ethical true crime series about missing people. She has also written two audio documentaries for Radio 4, Pieces of Britney and Unreal: A Critical History of Reality TV. A regular interviewer and panel host, she has been live on stage with authors including Bernadine Evaristo, Margaret Atwood and Bonnie Garmus and was a judge on the 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction.