The Palace Papers
Two decades after Diana, Tina Brown returns to the House of Windsor at one of its most turbulent moments. The Palace Papers, published in 2022, picks up roughly where her bestseller The Diana Chronicles left off, threading the death of Diana through the long and not always graceful succession crisis: the rebuilding of Charles and Camilla's reputation, the steady professional ascent of Catherine Middleton, the courtship and rupture of Harry and Meghan, the disgrace of Andrew over his Epstein associations, and the quiet steel of Queen Elizabeth at the center of it all. Brown, the former editor of Tatler, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker, draws on hundreds of interviews with palace insiders, courtiers, journalists, and celebrities, and reads the photo opportunities and back channels with a tabloid editor's eye. The result is a sweeping, often very funny portrait of a family that runs an institution and an institution that runs a family.
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Former Tatler and Vanity Fair editor Tina Brown picks up the Windsor story where her Diana book left off, in 1997, and walks readers through the rebuilding of the monarchy under Camilla, the marriage of William and Catherine, and the run-up to the Sussexes' move to Montecito.
The Palace Papers was written by Tina Brown and published in 2022. Brown is the former editor of Tatler, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and The Daily Beast. The metadata above lists IRB Media (a summarizer) in error.
Yes. The Palace Papers is Tina Brown's follow-up to The Diana Chronicles (2007). It picks up after Princess Diana's 1997 death and covers the British royal family through the Meghan-and-Harry era.
The Palace Papers is a standalone novel by Irb Media, not part of a series.
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