The BBC's Tom Burridge, in Madrid, says that the interview was a pitch to the Spanish people at a time when the popularity of the royal family is in decline.

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Due to a three-month drop in the median price of a single-family home as well as a continued decline of long-term interest rates (i.e. mortgage rates), the affordability of a single-family home has spiked back up to a level only briefly seen at the tail end of the financial crisis.

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While the complexities of family life are described in absorbing detail the arrival of children, the decline of a parent it is Ms Tyler's ability to conjure a character in a few succinct phrases that draws the reader deep into the whirling resentment and misunderstanding that becomes Pauline's and Michael's marriage.

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What cooking demands is time, a far scarcer commodity for most American households today than 50 years ago thanks to the decline of the nuclear family and the normalization of commercial work for women.

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