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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Tina, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Windsor, House of.

Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926-2022.

Elizabeth.

Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926-2022--Family.

Great Britain--Kings and rulers--Biography.

Great Britain.

Families.

Kings and rulers.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xv, 570 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Inside the House of Windsor

Place of Publication:

New York : Crown, [2022]

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.

"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. 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 reƯsolve 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 AnƯdrew, 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. 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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: PART ONE

1. Never Again: The Royals Confront a Post-Diana World

2. Sex and Sensibility: Why Charles Loves Camilla

3. The Wilderness Years: How Camilla Hung In

4. Mother of the Nation: The Queen's Twenty-first-Century Headaches

5. A Question of Independence: How Elizabeth and Philip Made It Work

6. Swan Songs: Margaret and the Queen Mother Leave the Party

7. Jubilee Girl: The Queen's Encore

8. Servant Problems: What the Butler Saw

9. Camilla's Line in the Sand: A New Duchess in the Winners' Enclosure

PART TWO

10. The Princes Next Door: William's and Harry's Competing Realities

11. The Lost Boys: How the Princes Survived Their Childhood

12. Enter Kate: William Meets an Extraordinary, Ordinary Girl

13. Queen in Waiting: Kate Closes the Deal

14. The Great Escape: Harry the Hero Finds His Way

15. Snoopers: How the Press Stalked the Royals

16. Gloriana: The Windsors' Winning Streak

17. The Duke of Hazard: Andrew's Money Pit

18. An Inconvenient Friend: The Lure of Jeffrey Epstein

19. Number Six on the Call Sheet: Meghan Markle's World

20. Flashman's Flameout: Harry Confronts His Demons

21. Smitten: The Stars Align for Harry and Meghan

22. Magic Kingdom: A Wedding Transforms the House of Windsor

23. Unraveling: The Monarchy's Morning After

24. Privacy and Prejudice: Surviving the Windsor Fishbowl

25. Scorched Earth: "Annus Horribilis" Redux.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 509-541) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9780593138090

0593138090

OCLC:

1310783632