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

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Hardcover
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2 lbs
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ISBN
0593138090

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Publisher
Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0593138090
ISBN-13
9780593138090
eBay Product ID (ePID)
7050430630

Product Key Features

Book Title
Palace Papers : inside the House of Windsor--The Truth and the Turmoil
Number of Pages
592 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2022
Topic
Rich & Famous, Royalty, Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, Europe / Great Britain / 21st Century, Europe / Great Britain / General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Author
Tina Brown
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
31.7 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.4 in

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2022-288367
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"Zingers crisscross these pages like tracer fire.... [Brown] becomes the ideal tour guide: witty, opinionated and adept at moving us smoothly from bedchamber to below stairs 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 " . . . Frothy and forthright, a kind of 'Keeping Up With the Windsors' with sprinkles of Keats. . . . ." -- The New York Times "Addictively readable . . . the most essential book of the Markle interregnum." -- The Washington Post "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 ". . . 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 to come." -- The LA Times "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 "Clever, well-informed and disgustingly entertaining." -- Times (UK) "A motherlode of delectable royal gossip . . . Brown has produced a work both scholarly and scandalous that makes us think about what the post-Elizabethan world may bring, alternately amusing and horrifying us along the way . . . vivid and richly-embroidered." -- The Independent UK "A compulsive read . . . Brown's turn of phrase--honed by decades at the helm of Tatler, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker --is the stuff of The Queen and The Crown creator Peter Morgan's scriptwriting dreams." -- Telegraph UK "The devil is in the delicious detail . . . Brown tackles her subjects with the same brio she brought to her years as a highly regarded magazine editor . . . Her access to those who flit around the royals gives her writing an edgy authenticity." -- Daily Mail "Brown thrashes her way through absolutely everything that has happened to the family since the end of the last book in 1997 . . . Charles and Camilla are vividly brought to life in a series of well-researched stories and anecdotes." -- Sunday Times (UK) "It's hard to look away as Tina Brown delves into decades' worth of royal scandals." -- Guardian (UK), Praise for The Diana Chronicles "[Tina Brown] knows this world much better than many who inhabit it." -- The New York Times "By turns salacious, vinegary, depressing and hilarious . . . a psychodrama, a morality play, a pageant of recklessness and revenge, of passion and pity, of loneliness and looniness." -- The Wall Street Journal " The Diana Chronicles . . . has enough of Diana's hairpin personality turns, emotional drops, and gleeful summits to be a Disneyland thrill ride." -- Los Angeles Times "Brown's jam-packed, juicy roll in the high cotton is . . . a walloping good read." -- The Washington Post "[An] insanely readable and improbably profound new biography." -- Chicago Tribune, "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 "Frothy and forthright, a kind of 'Keeping Up With the Windsors' with sprinkles of Keats." -- The New York Times "[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 "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 "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 "Clever, well-informed and disgustingly entertaining." -- The Times (UK) "A motherlode of delectable royal gossip . . . Brown has produced a work both scholarly and scandalous that makes us think about what the post-Elizabethan world may bring, alternately amusing and horrifying us along the way. . . . Vivid and richly embroidered." -- The Independent (UK) "A compulsive read . . . Brown's turn of phrase--honed by decades at the helm of Tatler, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker --is the stuff of The Queen and The Crown creator Peter Morgan's scriptwriting dreams." -- The Telegraph (UK) "The devil is in the delicious detail. . . . Brown tackles her subjects with the same brio she brought to her years as a highly regarded magazine editor. . . . Her access to those who flit around the royals gives her writing an edgy authenticity." -- Daily Mail "Brown thrashes her way through absolutely everything that has happened to the family since the end of the last book in 1997. . . . Charles and Camilla are vividly brought to life in a series of well-researched stories and anecdotes." -- The Sunday Times (UK) "It's hard to look away as Tina Brown delves into decades' worth of royal scandals." -- The Guardian (UK), "Zingers crisscross these pages like tracer fire.... [Brown] becomes the ideal tour guide: witty, opinionated and adept at moving us smoothly from bedchamber to below stairs 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 " . . . Frothy and forthright, a kind of 'Keeping Up With the Windsors' with sprinkles of Keats. . . . ." -- The New York Times "Addictively readable . . . the most essential book of the Markle interregnum." -- The Washington Post "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 ". . . 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 to come." -- The LA Times "Clever, well-informed and disgustingly entertaining." -- Times (UK) "A motherlode of delectable royal gossip . . . Brown has produced a work both scholarly and scandalous that makes us think about what the post-Elizabethan world may bring, alternately amusing and horrifying us along the way . . . vivid and richly-embroidered." -- The Independent UK "A compulsive read . . . Brown's turn of phrase--honed by decades at the helm of Tatler, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker --is the stuff of The Queen and The Crown creator Peter Morgan's scriptwriting dreams." -- Telegraph UK "The devil is in the delicious detail . . . Brown tackles her subjects with the same brio she brought to her years as a highly regarded magazine editor . . . Her access to those who flit around the royals gives her writing an edgy authenticity." -- Daily Mail "Brown thrashes her way through absolutely everything that has happened to the family since the end of the last book in 1997 . . . Charles and Camilla are vividly brought to life in a series of well-researched stories and anecdotes." -- Sunday Times (UK) "It's hard to look away as Tina Brown delves into decades' worth of royal scandals." -- Guardian (UK), "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 "Juicy, satisfying entertainment." -- Town & Country "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 "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 "Clever, well-informed and disgustingly entertaining." -- The Times (UK) "A motherlode of delectable royal gossip . . . Brown has produced a work both scholarly and scandalous that makes us think about what the post-Elizabethan world may bring, alternately amusing and horrifying us along the way. . . . Vivid and richly embroidered." -- The Independent (UK) "A compulsive read . . . Brown's turn of phrase--honed by decades at the helm of Tatler, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker --is the stuff of The Queen and The Crown creator Peter Morgan's scriptwriting dreams." -- The Telegraph (UK) "The devil is in the delicious detail. . . . Brown tackles her subjects with the same brio she brought to her years as a highly regarded magazine editor. . . . Her access to those who flit around the royals gives her writing an edgy authenticity." -- Daily Mail "Brown thrashes her way through absolutely everything that has happened to the family since the end of the last book in 1997. . . . Charles and Camilla are vividly brought to life in a series of well-researched stories and anecdotes." -- The Sunday Times (UK) "It's hard to look away as Tina Brown delves into decades' worth of royal scandals." -- The Guardian (UK), "Clever, well-informed and disgustingly entertaining." -- Times (UK) "A motherlode of delectable royal gossip . . . Brown has produced a work both scholarly and scandalous that makes us think about what the post-Elizabethan world may bring, alternately amusing and horrifying us along the way . . . vivid and richly-embroidered." -- The Independent UK "A compulsive read . . . Brown's turn of phrase--honed by decades at the helm of Tatler, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker --is the stuff of The Queen and The Crown creator Peter Morgan's scriptwriting dreams." -- Telegraph UK "The devil is in the delicious detail . . . Brown tackles her subjects with the same brio she brought to her years as a highly regarded magazine editor . . . Her access to those who flit around the royals gives her writing an edgy authenticity." -- Daily Mail "Brown thrashes her way through absolutely everything that has happened to the family since the end of the last book in 1997 . . . Charles and Camilla are vividly brought to life in a series of well-researched stories and anecdotes." -- Sunday Times (UK) "It's hard to look away as Tina Brown delves into decades' worth of royal scandals." -- Guardian (UK)
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
941.085092/2 B
Synopsis
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 specifΒ­ically, there could never be "another Diana"--a memΒ­ber of the family whose global popularity upstaged, outshone, and posed an existential threat to the BritΒ­ish 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 trauΒ­matic 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 reΒ­solve 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 ascendΒ­ance of Kate Middleton, the downfall of Prince AnΒ­drew, and Harry and Meghan's stunning decision to step back as senior royals. Despite the fragile monarΒ­chy'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 irrevocaΒ­bly change how the world perceives and underΒ­stands the royal family., 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 specifΒ­ically, there could never be "another Diana"--a memΒ­ber of the family whose global popularity upstaged, outshone, and posed an existential threat to the BritΒ­ish 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 trauΒ­matic 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 reΒ­solve 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 ascendΒ­ance of Kate Middleton, the downfall of Prince AnΒ­drew, and Harry and Meghan's stunning decision to step back as senior royals. Despite the fragile monarΒ­chy'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 irrevocaΒ­bly change how the world perceives and underΒ­stands the royal family.
LC Classification Number
DA28.35.W54B76 2022

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      I found the book to be similar to a history lesson I didn't bother to take in school. I now have a better understanding of how the Monarchy in England functions.

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      Looking forward to reading this and not having to wait for a library copy which would probably entail several months of waiting time.

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      I'm about halfway done with the book I just received & am totally enjoying it! I've read lots of books on the Royals; but Tina Brown's book offers the up-to-date lowdown on everyone, has been thoroughly researched, is super entertaining & unveils each of their secrets. What a fast-moving, well-written, mesmerizing book!!

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