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The Palace Papers

Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil

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The Palace Papers

By: Tina Brown
Narrated by: Tina Brown
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From the queen's stoic resolve to the crisis of Meghan and Harry. From the ascendance of Camilla and Kate to the downfall of Andrew.

Full of remarkable inside access, The Palace Papers by Sunday Times best-selling author Tina Brown will change how you understand the Royal Family.

'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 listeners 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 William and Harry who are on 'different paths', the ascendance of 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.

©2022 Tina Brown (P)2022 Penguin Audio
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"A brilliant book. Tina Brown has inside knowledge and writes so well." (Lady Anne Glenconner, author of Lady in Waiting)

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The one thing that really annoys me is when a British author writes a book about something so quintessential British like the royal family has written the book aimed at the North American audience. Currency is noted in dollars not pounds, & the substitution of English words turned into the American terminology, even changing the way words of the same spelling are pronounced. I watch quite a bit of US tv shows so I was acquainted with the majority of terms, but I can’t imagine people 10 or more years older than me wouldn’t .
Anyway let’s get back to the substance of the book. The author is obviously a more of a traditionalist supporter of the Royal family in the way she bigs up Charles, Camellia, William & Catherine, whilst at the same time being biased & critical & of Diana, Harry & Meghan. The later 3 are and always have been my favourite royals apart from Queen. She did get the characteristics of Her Majesty spot on, praising the way she has served our country impeccably for the past 70 years. There are one or 2 things contained within the book that I’ve not heard previously. All in all a very enjoyable listen.

A very interesting listen

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I struggled at first with the narration. Whenever Tina was using a direct quote she would try to mimic the person who originally said it, however as the book went on it became less noticeable. The book itself is enjoyable and has lots of gossipy tidbits alongside the history of the Monarchy in recent times. One of the better biographies.

Very good biography.

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loved it and truly sad when it ended! Thoroughly recommend! Now on to a new era in history.

Thoroughly enjoyed

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Magnificently constructed and researched, and I feel, fair to all characters within ( some of them not very nice ). Interestingly informative. But I had to have regular rests from the terrible voice torturing the vowels and much else of the reader/author

everything but the voice

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I enjoyed this book but I did not enjoy the unnecessary use of swearing when it wasn’t in context and was in fact Tina’s choice of words. No need for it. Didn’t add to the storytelling and to be honest lowered my opinion of her skills. Sorry but it was totally poor choice of words given the very nature of the subjects

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