The Palace Papers

The Sunday Times bestseller

Brought to you by Penguin.

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 bestselling author Tina Brown will change how you understand the Royal Family.

'A brilliant book. Tina Brown has inside knowledge and writes so well' LADY ANNE GLENCONNER (author of Lady in Waiting)
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'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 readers 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.


Praise for The Diana Chronicles:
'Unputdownable. . . extraordinary. . . allows us an unprecedented look at the world and mind of the most famous person on the planet.' Helen Mirren

'A blockbuster: a rollicking, page-turning, fast-quipping, gripping romp of a read. It is the work of a seasoned, serious journalist.' The Times

© Tina Brown 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

The Palace Papers .... the Royal firm.

A very interesting and insightful book about the Queen and members of her family .

Great insight!

I listened to this on a roadtrip i took, several hours on the road. It was interesting!
I lived that the author read it herself.
If you live the series The Crown, you’ll love this

rushed unclear narration

the author read too fast that I had a hard time catching the words she was saying. sometimes she tried to impersonate the person but I felt it was bad impersonation and it didn't feel right. the contents are OK except the part about megxit and the tiara gate which is incomplete. further I felt the author more like reciting facts rather than take a stand as to what those facts mean. it is ok to be a bit biased since this is her interpretation of the facts but strangely for megxit it was less conviction than the other so called royal scandals. but the biggest issue is the narration as explained above.