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Mary Elizabeth Williams

It's good to be Queen – but no one else

Queen Elizabeth, surrounded by Prince Harry, Meghan Markle, Prince William, Catherine Middleton, and Prince Andrew Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images

"They have no freedom, really," observes Tina Brown.

As a journalist, editor and bestselling author of "The Vanity Fair Diaries" and "The Diana Chronicles," Brown has been observing the British royal family for decades. And she's come to the conclusion that, as she says in "The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor, the Truth and the Turmoil," for many royals, life is "all status, no quo."

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