{"product_id":"9780593138113","title":"The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor--the Truth and the Turmoil","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER • The “addictively readable” (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e) 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 \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Frothy and forthright, a kind of \u003ci\u003eKeeping Up with the Windsors\u003c\/i\u003e with sprinkles of Keats.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003e(Notable Book of the Year)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post, Elle, Town \u0026amp; Country\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePicking up where Tina Brown’s masterful \u003ci\u003eThe Diana Chronicles\u003c\/i\u003e left off, \u003ci\u003eThe Palace Papers\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrown 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTina 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Palace Papers\u003c\/i\u003e will irrevoca­bly change how the world perceives and under­stands the royal family.","brand":"Crown Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42370375745597,"sku":"9780593138113","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780593138113_p0.jpg?v=1771570125","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9780593138113","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}