作者简介

Tina Brown is an award-winning writer, the former editor in chief of Tatler, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker, and the founder of The Daily Beast and of the live event platform Women in the World. She is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Diana Chronicles, and in 2017 she published The Vanity Fair Diaries, chosen as one of the best books of the year by Time, People, The Guardian, The Economist, Entertainment Weekly, and Vogue. In 2000 she was awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Empire) by Queen Elizabeth II for her services to journalism. She lives in New York City.

内容简介

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

“Brown is a deft and wily royal chronicler, marshaling a heavy arsenal of details into a wickedly edible narrative.”—Los Angeles Times

“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.

Picking up where Tina Brown’s masterful 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.

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 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.

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 irrevocably change how the world perceives and understands the royal family.


Tina Brown is an award-winning writer, the former editor in chief of Tatler, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker, and the founder of The Daily Beast and of the live event platform Women in the World. She is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Diana Chronicles, and in 2017 she published The Vanity Fair Diaries, chosen as one of the best books of the year by Time, Peop...

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  • Donald
    真是廿年八卦合集,越往后越依靠其他新闻报道,也测证了作者离英国媒界愈发遥远,不过Meghan的求职记倒是蛮精彩的。相形之下,作者对Kate未免太奉承了一些。05-16
  • Callas
    I’m not saying this was impartially and matter-of-factly written, nor should it be, but I liked it. I did really empathize with the lot of them - the stoic, the hot-headed, the ambitious, the wounded - a testament to Tina Brown’s clever storytelling. (PS Diana the plotting, risk-taking firebrand will never not be iconic.)07-01
  • 安二
    ft summer reads rec &full of gossip我看得很开心08-27
  • 小鸟停在杠头上
    英国王室的权威八卦,从女王父母那一辈讲到哈利梅根,很精彩的主人公和他们的人生故事。文笔很好,写法特别适合这本书的内容,遣词造句非常传神,金句频出,恨不得都摘抄下来。01-18
  • yuyiivy
    可惜我的语言文化背景还是不够 读起来不够顺 要查的单词短语和reference太多09-27

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