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