Download or read book Talking of the Royal Family written by Prof Michael Billig and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To talk about royalty is to talk of many things: privilege, equality, nationality, morality, family life, parenting, divorce, the media and more. Important themes and issues flow through the seemingly trivial everyday chatter about royalty. Now with a new preface, Talking of the Royal Family was the first serious full-length study of royalty to emerge from this rhetorical perspective and remains relevant today.