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

4 1/2 stars. This book is a history of the House of Windsor encompassing the last 210 years and covers off most of the major players in the Royal Family. Brown has great credentials and is a meticulous researcher with a lot of contacts who helped her get the inside story on the Royals, the scandals, the sadness, the feuds, the friendships, the women on the inside and on the outside of the family. It is a very easy and fascinating book to read. The Queen, Prince Philip, the Queen Mother, Princess Margaret, Charles, Anne, Andrew and Edward and the Princes William and Harry and the women they love, Kate and Meghan. Diana was also featured as her life and her death reverberate in the family. Camilla Parker-Bowles and her story are also very interesting. There are lots of behind the scenes stories about the Royal Family and Brown keeps the reader interested and invested and turning the pages until the last one, even when we already know how some of it ends. A very good read.

The Palace Papers was an interesting & easy read. What I quite liked about this book was that we got to know more about Camilla, especially. I’ve long believed she got a raw deal in the press & especially from people in the United States.The Palace Papers focuses largely on the women—Camilla, Catherine, Diana (ugh) and Meghan. Camilla & all the torment she was handed was really the standout story for me. She seems genuinely interesting, a strong woman who is who she is & is fairly unapologetic about it. She’d be great fun at a dinner party.I believe Tina Brown gets to the point in terms of someone finally showing that despite her ability to use the press for her own gains, Diana was just as unstable, narcissistic and irritating as she seemed & while I’ve no doubt she loved her kids, she & Charles together were utterly toxic. I tend to believe that shows when it comes to William & Harry.Catherine is as dull as she seems, which is rather a good thing. She gets on with the job, which I actually like.Meghan Markle receives quite a bit of understanding in this book from my perspective. The one thing I, like the author, struggle to believe is that she didn’t do any research & didn’t understand why she wasn’t allowed to come in & do everything her way. If anything, as I read this book & thought back on the years of torment Camilla experienced, I found Meghan Markle to be fussing about nothing.As a dual citizen, I don’t believe Americans actually understand the monarchy in the least. The idea that Harry or Meghan was there to do anything other than supporting the Crown was obvious to anyone who understands what the monarchy does.All in all, this book was an easy read. The author was fair & ultimately, it may give some people who wish to learn a bit more insight in to this long held British institution. Britain is not America with nicer accents. This gives a taste of one of the major institutions that has helped to shape modern day Britain.

I rather enjoyed this. She seems to.like Meghan Markle but still remained relatively objective.

Greta book and super fast delivery.

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