Royal Heirs and Royal Airs
There's a mini-vogue in publishing now not so much for group biographies (how very 2019!) but for histories that take two apparently contrasted dynasties or individuals and then tease out their parallels, as well as their differences. Following on from Carol Gardner's The Divided North, which looked at the contrasting fortunes of black and white families in Portland, Maine, in the 19th century and Jonathan W. Jordan's Ike and Winston, which examined the lives of Dwight Eisenhower and Winston Ch…

