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The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor--the Truth and the Turmoil
The gripping inside story of the British royal family's battle to overcome the dramas of the Diana years-only to confront new, twenty-first-century crises
"Never again" became Queen Elizabeth II's mantra shortly after Princess Diana's tragic death. More specifically, there could never be "another Diana"-a member of the family whose global popularity upstaged, outshone, and posed an existential threat to the British monarchy.
Picking up where Tina Brown's masterful The Diana Chronicles left off, The Palace Papers reveals how the royal family reinvented itself after the traumatic years when Diana's blazing celebrity ripped through the House of Windsor like a comet.
Brown takes readers on a tour de force journey through the scandals, love affairs, power plays, and betrayals that have buffeted the monarchy over the last twenty-five years. We see the Queen's stoic resolve after the passing of Princess Margaret, the Queen Mother, and Prince Philip, her partner for seven decades, and how she triumphs in her Jubilee years even as family troubles rage around her. Brown explores Prince Charles's determination to make Camilla Parker Bowles his wife, the tension between William and Harry on "different paths," the ascendance of Kate Middleton, the downfall of Prince Andrew, and Harry and Meghan's stunning decision to step back as senior royals. Despite the fragile monarchy's best efforts, "never again" seems fast approaching.
Tina Brown has been observing and chronicling the British monarchy for three decades, and her sweeping account is full of powerful revelations, newly reported details, and searing insight gleaned from remarkable access to royal insiders. Stylish, witty, and erudite, The Palace Papers will irrevocably change how the world perceives and understands the royal family.
"Never again" became Queen Elizabeth II's mantra shortly after Princess Diana's tragic death. More specifically, there could never be "another Diana"-a member of the family whose global popularity upstaged, outshone, and posed an existential threat to the British monarchy.
Picking up where Tina Brown's masterful The Diana Chronicles left off, The Palace Papers reveals how the royal family reinvented itself after the traumatic years when Diana's blazing celebrity ripped through the House of Windsor like a comet.
Brown takes readers on a tour de force journey through the scandals, love affairs, power plays, and betrayals that have buffeted the monarchy over the last twenty-five years. We see the Queen's stoic resolve after the passing of Princess Margaret, the Queen Mother, and Prince Philip, her partner for seven decades, and how she triumphs in her Jubilee years even as family troubles rage around her. Brown explores Prince Charles's determination to make Camilla Parker Bowles his wife, the tension between William and Harry on "different paths," the ascendance of Kate Middleton, the downfall of Prince Andrew, and Harry and Meghan's stunning decision to step back as senior royals. Despite the fragile monarchy's best efforts, "never again" seems fast approaching.
Tina Brown has been observing and chronicling the British monarchy for three decades, and her sweeping account is full of powerful revelations, newly reported details, and searing insight gleaned from remarkable access to royal insiders. Stylish, witty, and erudite, The Palace Papers will irrevocably change how the world perceives and understands the royal family.
Editorial Reviews
Praise for The Diana Chronicles
"[Tina Brown] knows this world much better than many who inhabit it."-The New York Times
"By turns salacious, vinegary, depressing and hilarious . . . a psychodrama, a morality play, a pageant of recklessness and revenge, of passion and pity, of loneliness and looniness."-The Wall Street Journal
"The Diana Chronicles . . . has enough of Diana's hairpin personality turns, emotional drops, and gleeful summits to be a Disneyland thrill ride."-Los Angeles Times
"Brown's jam-packed, juicy roll in the high cotton is . . . a walloping good read."-TheWashington Post
"[An] insanely readable and improbably profound new biography."-Chicago Tribune
"[Tina Brown] knows this world much better than many who inhabit it."-The New York Times
"By turns salacious, vinegary, depressing and hilarious . . . a psychodrama, a morality play, a pageant of recklessness and revenge, of passion and pity, of loneliness and looniness."-The Wall Street Journal
"The Diana Chronicles . . . has enough of Diana's hairpin personality turns, emotional drops, and gleeful summits to be a Disneyland thrill ride."-Los Angeles Times
"Brown's jam-packed, juicy roll in the high cotton is . . . a walloping good read."-TheWashington Post
"[An] insanely readable and improbably profound new biography."-Chicago Tribune
