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The palace papers : inside the House of Windsor--the truth and the turmoil / Tina Brown.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Random House Large Print, [2022]Edition: First large print editionDescription: xvii, 877 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780593612514
  • 0593612515
Other title:
  • Inside the House of Windsor--the truth and the turmoil
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Contents:
Prologue: kryptonite -- Never again : the Royals confront a post-Diana world -- Sex and sensibility : why Charles loves Camilla -- The wilderness years : how Camilla hung in -- Mother of the nation : the Queen's twenty-first-century headaches -- A question of independence : how Elizabeth and Philip made it work -- Swan songs : Margaret and the Queen Mother leave the party -- Jubilee girl : the Queen's encore -- Servant problems : what the butler saw -- Camilla's line in the sand : a new duchess in the winners' enclosure -- The princes next door : William's and Harry's competing realities -- The lost boys : how the princes survived their childhood -- Enter Kate : Williams meets an extraordinary, ordinary girl -- Queen in waiting : Kate closes the deal -- The great escape : Harry the hero finds a way -- Snoopers : how the press stalked the Royals -- Gloriana : the Windsors' winning streak -- The duke of hazard : Andrew's money pit -- An inconvenient friend : the lure of Jeffrey Epstein -- Number six on the call sheet : Meghan Markle's world -- Flashman's flameout : Harry confronts his demons -- Smitten : the stars align for Harry and Meghan -- Magic kingdom : a wedding transforms the House of Windsor -- Unraveling : the monarchy's morning after -- Privacy and prejudice : surviving the Windsor fishbowl -- Scorched earth : "Annus Horribilis" redux -- Epilogue: embers.
Summary: The author of The Diana Chronicles takes readers inside the British royal family since the death of Princess Diana, showing the Queen's stoic resolve as family drama raged around her.
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Large Print Book Large Print Book Main Library Large Print NonFiction 941.085 B881 Available 33111010931893
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The "addictively readable" ( The Washington Post ) 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

"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 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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 765-825) and index.

The author of The Diana Chronicles takes readers inside the British royal family since the death of Princess Diana, showing the Queen's stoic resolve as family drama raged around her.

Prologue: kryptonite -- Never again : the Royals confront a post-Diana world -- Sex and sensibility : why Charles loves Camilla -- The wilderness years : how Camilla hung in -- Mother of the nation : the Queen's twenty-first-century headaches -- A question of independence : how Elizabeth and Philip made it work -- Swan songs : Margaret and the Queen Mother leave the party -- Jubilee girl : the Queen's encore -- Servant problems : what the butler saw -- Camilla's line in the sand : a new duchess in the winners' enclosure -- The princes next door : William's and Harry's competing realities -- The lost boys : how the princes survived their childhood -- Enter Kate : Williams meets an extraordinary, ordinary girl -- Queen in waiting : Kate closes the deal -- The great escape : Harry the hero finds a way -- Snoopers : how the press stalked the Royals -- Gloriana : the Windsors' winning streak -- The duke of hazard : Andrew's money pit -- An inconvenient friend : the lure of Jeffrey Epstein -- Number six on the call sheet : Meghan Markle's world -- Flashman's flameout : Harry confronts his demons -- Smitten : the stars align for Harry and Meghan -- Magic kingdom : a wedding transforms the House of Windsor -- Unraveling : the monarchy's morning after -- Privacy and prejudice : surviving the Windsor fishbowl -- Scorched earth : "Annus Horribilis" redux -- Epilogue: embers.

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