Defender of the Faith: The Church and the Crisis in the Monarchy
By Ted Harrison
Fount (Harper Collins). 158 pages. £6.99
ISBN 0 00 627983 X
The House of Windsor is religiously confused, unrepentantly immoral, hugely expensive, blatantly hypocritical, fatally aloof and readily replaceable. So argues this readable barometer of our changing mood about the current royal family.
If some of Ted Harrison's stories remain unproven, the reality often turns out to be worse than the rumour; the royals are sinking fast. Their time is literally almost up, since our dynasties average 84.5 years; this would bring the Windsors neatly to the millennium's end.
