The Queen’s successors will not be able to create her ‘mystique’, says writer

Tina Brown, author of The Palace Papers, says monarch's image stems from time before great media age'

The Queen's iconic mystique" is a result of her reign beginning before the great media age", and will not be something her successors are able to emulate, the author of The Palace Papers has said.

Tina Brown, whose new book charts the royal family's recent history, said that Prince Charles and Prince William would have to be more communicative" than the Queen had been because of the society and media landscape they live in.

She told an audience at Hay festival: It was the era of deference. She could develop that great mystique and say nothing which took enormous discipline and sense. Her sagacity has been not giving the interviews, but it's much harder now."