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The palace papers, inside the House of Windsor--the truth and the turmoil, Tina Brown

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Tina Brown

inside the House of Windsor--the truth and the turmoil

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 specif ically, there could never be "another Diana"--a mem ber of the family whose global popularity upstaged, outshone, and posed an existential threat to the Brit ish 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 re solve 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 ascend ance of Kate Middleton, the downfall of Prince An drew, and Harry and Meghan's stunning decision to step back as senior royals. Despite the fragile monar chy'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 trau matic years when Diana's blazing celebrity ripped through the House of Windsor like a comet

Inside the House of Windsor