POD Save the Queen!

Hello and welcome to POD Save the Queen.

I'm your host, Zoe Forcey and I'm joined today by a very special guest, Tracy Borman.

Hi, Tracy, how are you?

Hi, it's lovely to be with you. Now we love having

royal experts on the show and you are a double royal expert I'm going to go and call you

because not only are you a author with lots of royal titles

and published but you also work at the Historic Royal Palaces.

That's right. I like being described as doubly royal.

That's a new dost I think so thank you for that that's absolutely right so I'm a

historian first and foremost and I have tended to write about Royals throughout history, particularly Tudor ones, but all the way up to the present day.

And yes, my kind of day job is working for historic royal palaces so my office is that Hampton

Court which is pretty much a dream country for a royal and particularly a Tudor

historian it doesn't get much better than that.

That's absolutely incredible. I'm so jealous. We've got quite a nice office in London, but that is

absolutely beating us there completely on that front. Now I'm going to ask you about and get you to talk about both of these subjects, but we're going to start off with your latest book. Now I know you've published both fiction and non-fiction works, but the latest latest Crown Inspector is a look back at Royal History.

The Blurb describes it as a new history of the British monarchy.

Tracy has examined every monarch from William the Conqueror's Triumph in Hastings in 1066, all the way to the winds of the modern day.

So how did this come about?

Well, I have to say that it's by far the biggest book I have ever tackled the biggest subject,

you know more than a thousand years of history and if it hadn't been for lockdown I think I'd still be writing it.

It was quite a challenge.

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