The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor--the Truth and the Turmoil

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The addictively readable (The Washington Post) inside story of the British royal familys battle to overcome the dramas of the Diana yearsonly to confront new, twenty-first-century crises Frothy and forthright, a kind of Keeping Up with the Windsors with sprinkles of Keats.The New York Times (Notable Book of the Year) ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, Elle, Town & Country Never again became Queen Elizabeth IIs mantra shortly after Princess Dianas tragic death. More specifically, there could never be another Dianaa member of the family whose global popularity upstaged, outshone, and posed an existential threat to the British monarchy. Picking up where Tina Browns masterful The Diana Chronicles left off, The Palace Papers reveals how the royal family reinvented itself after the traumatic years when Dianas 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 Queens 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 Charless 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 Meghans stunning decision to step back as senior royals. Despite the fragile monarchys 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.