Camilla: warts-and-all
Camilla: An Intimate Portrait (Short Books, £6.99)
This warts-and-all portrait of Mrs Parker Bowles is only "intimate" in the sense that its author has spent a lot of time between the covers of other books about her and the royals.
The result, for the most part, reflects its subject: no-nonsense, good-humoured, occasionally difficult to rein in.
However, thus far, Camilla has been infinitely more discreet. There is gossip here about every stage of her life: "intelligent" schoolgirl (only one O-level); party animal; marvellous mother; and, of course, cunning adulteress.
Tyrrel concludes that Charlie's consort is neither an old trout nor Cruella de Vil but a woman who has always known what she wants and how to get it. She and HRH have both shown persistence in the face of grief and, in that respect at least, they deserve each other.
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