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

Product Description NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BESTSELLER The riveting inside story of the British royal family since the death of Princess Diana, from the Queen’s tightening grip to the defection of Harry and Meghan—by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Diana Chronicles "Never again," became Queen Elizabeth II's mantra shortly after Diana's 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 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. Tina Brown takes readers on a tour de force journey that shows the Queen's stoic resolve as she coped with the passing of Princess Margaret, the Queen Mother, and her partner for seven decades, Prince Philip, and triumphed in her Jubilee years even as the family dramas raged around her. She explores Prince Charles's determination to make Camilla his queen, the tension between two princes on "different paths," the ascendance of the resolute Kate Middleton, the disturbing allegations surrounding Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein, 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. Full of powerful revelations, nuanced details, and searing insight, The Palace Papers will irrevocably change how the world perceives and understands the royal family. Review NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Named one of the best books of 2022 by the New York Times Book Review • Vogue • The Times • The Globe & Mail • The Washington Post • Town & Country "Frothy and forthright, a kind of 'Keeping Up With the Windsors' with sprinkles of Keats." —The New York Times "Zingers crisscross these pages like tracer fire. . . . [Tina Brown] becomes the ideal tour guide: witty, opinionated and adept at moving us smoothly from bedchamber to belowstairs while offering side trips to the cesspits of the tabloid press, the striving world of second-tier celebrities and the threadbare lodgings of palace supernumeraries." —The Wall Street Journal "[Tina Brown] deploys her sterling contacts and deeply embedded sources, her familiarity with British royal history and her personal encounters with royals, palace courtiers, politicians and journalists to serve up a luscious feast of . . . well, yes, gossip. But what elegant gossip, dressed up in Brown's stylish sentences and erudite insights." —USA Today "Addictively readable. . . . The most essential book of the Markle interregnum." —The Washington Post "Tina Brown does not seem to have researched her subjects so much as lived with them. . . . She writes with the kind of familiarity carried through years of fine-tuned observation. . . . The Palace Papers is a supremely satisfying read." —Vogue "A must-read on 21st century British royal drama." —Town & Country "[Brown's] true love for the queen as a person shines through, but she is not at all afraid to touch some of the subjects that ardent monarchists might avoid, and she's equally fact-based and dishy." —Vanity Fair "Gripping. . . . [The] real power of this book is the cumulative picture it builds of lives as they have to be lived by the rules and customs of the Windsor palaces." —The Daily Beast "A dishy yet substantial look at the monarchy's evolution since Princess Diana." —The Washington Post "Brown is a deft and wily royal chronicler, marshaling a heavy arsenal of details into a wickedly edible narrative. Her cynical eye and free, indirect style sustain and synthesize a range of viewpoints, and she's retained the editor's knack for devastating capsule descriptions. . . . An excellent primer for the unpredictable years ahead." —Los Angeles Times "H