JUBILEE SPECIAL: Is the Queen for real?

A funny and thoughtful chat about Her Maj, with the distinguished royal biographer, ROBERT HARDMAN, in the back of a London black cab.

Photo by Mathew Browne on Unsplash

I met Robert Hardman twenty years ago this August, in a cafe in the Normandy seaport of Dieppe. We were both there, along with hundreds of other journalists from all over the UK and the British Commonwealth, covering the 60th anniversary of the World War Dieppe Raid, the 1942 water-bourne bloodbath in which thousands of…