Laura Clancy

Dr Laura Clancy is a lecturer in media at Lancaster University. She is the author of 'Running the Family Firm: How the Monarchy Manages Its Image and Our Money' (2021). She is interested in issues of monarchy, aristocracy, capitalism and power.

The media is central to the monarchy’s survival. Will it also be its undoing?

OPINION: The royal family is buttressed by an institution that has changed beyond recognition since the 1950s

By Laura Clancy

/ 13 Sep 2022

The media is central to the monarchy’s survival. Will it also be its undoing?

What kind of King will Charles be?

OPINION: For the best clue to how he might reign as monarch, look at his taste in architecture

By Laura Clancy

/ 12 Sep 2022

What’s wrong with Britain? Let’s start with the monarchy

The Royal Family’s archaic-seeming rules and customs obscure its deep connections with modern global corporate power

By Laura Clancy

/ 26 Sep 2021

What’s wrong with Britain? Let’s start with the monarchy