Or, Perhaps, Eminent Henryites?

We have no idea if it’s going to be any good (probably! The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s is superb), but the IDEA of rebooting Lytton Strachey’s perfect/bitchy Eminent Victorians (Florence Nightingale, General Gordon, Thomas Arnold and Cardinal Manning) for our current Elizabethan age (Rupert Murdoch, Prince Charles, Margaret Thatcher and Mick Jagger) is a slam-dunk.

The author, Piers Brendon, previously treated us to Eminent Edwardians (Baden Powell, Emmeline Pankhurst, Lord Northcliffe and Arthur Balfour), and I’m sure we’re all excited at the prospect of Eminent Williamses.

Hm. Predictions? James Middleton? Emma Watson? Gwenyth Paltrow? Whatever Russian oligarch owns all of Mayfair within the next ten years?