ABSTRACT
This is the opening section of a book review by the broadcaster and journalist Rhun ap Iorwerth that appeared in the literary and cultural magazine Taliesin in Spring 2011. The book under review is A Bard for Highgrove: A Likely Story (Cambria Books 2010) by Meic Stephens – a prominent and prolific commentator on Welsh literary culture in both languages, and a champion of the literary arts in Wales for over forty years. After a brief but telling excursion to somewhere a world away from Wales, the reviewer brings us back home with some pertinent observations on the nation’s schizophrenic attitude to one of the main targets of this political satire: the monarchy.
