Dónal Lynch: Prince William’s aversion to reading could prove fatal, or it could lend him that common touch

Dónal Lynch: Prince William’s aversion to reading could prove fatal, or it could lend him that common touch

‘Royal stenographers have accidentally let the daylight in”, the New Statesman’s Will Lloyd said last month. Amid a procession of bland factoids about Prince William, “that he likes Aston Villa, that he cares about mental health”, came a quietly depressing claim: “We’re told by Robert Hardman that William is unable to name a favourite author, but that this ‘box-set guy’ does love ‘Batman-related’ superhero movies...”.