CLF 2022: Press and Palace with Tina Brown, Betsy Prioleau, and Amanda Foreman

Press and Palace with Tina Brown, Betsy Prioleau, and Amanda Foreman, debuted on the Charleston Literary Festival stage in Charleston, South Carolina on November 5, 2022. Tina Brown’s The Palace Papers and Betsy Prioleau’s Diamonds and Deadlines feature remarkable women, in different eras, dealing with power, glamour, fame, scandal and intrigue. Despite flouting convention, Miriam Leslie, self-styled “Empress of Journalism” in the Gilded Age, wielded considerable influence through her numerous magazines. The British Royal family, with the late Queen at the helm, had to negotiate turbulent times and reinvent itself. Historian Amanda Foreman teases out their allure. Tina Brown is the former editor-in-chief of Tatler, Vanity Fair and New Yorker, and author of The Diana Chronicles. Betsy Prioleau’s previous book is Swoon: Great Seducers and Why Women Love Them.
00:00-4:34 Introduction
4:34-1:00:00 Conversation

[@Ashley_e]

Unfair assessment of her majesty the Queen’s symbolism running contrary to the embodiment of a modern woman. Female is not was the Sovereign is. Nor male. Sovereign is an immovable title that irregardless of gender requires the same stabilizing hand. It’s Grace and respect. Severing the people. That is not the same as submissive. Incorrect take on HMTQ.

[@IslandDweller1]

Yes, that was a boneheaded take, and I'm glad Brown got a chance to reply that the Queen's father also had to have a private and public self as Sovereign. Also, good leadership always has and always should involve self-sacrifice and placing others ahead of yourself. It won't be heroic if leaders of any gender ignore that and start making everything about their feelings and what they want to do. I don't see how the world could function.

[@HannahPorcella]

@@IslandDweller1 You hit the nail on the head, regarding Leadership and sacrifice. No good leader gets by without sacrifice. Which is why our current leaders in the US have made such a mess of it.

[@veronicanicholls7132]

Absolutely nailed it!@@HannahPorcella