蒂娜·布朗,“皇宫文件:温莎宫内部——真相与动荡”
英国王室为战胜戴安娜时代的戏剧而斗争的扣人心弦的内幕故事,却遭遇了21世纪的新危机
戴安娜王妃不幸去世后不久,“永不再来”就成了伊丽莎白二世女王的口头禅。更具体地说,永远不可能有“另一位戴安娜”——这个家族的成员在全球的知名度超过了英国王室,并对其生存构成威胁。
从蒂娜·布朗(Tina Brown)的《戴安娜编年史》(The Diana Chronicles)一书中脱颖而出的地方开始,皇宫的报纸揭示了在戴安娜像彗星一样横扫温莎宫(House of Windsor)的悲惨岁月之后,王室是如何重塑自我的。
布朗带领读者进行了一次“反暴力之旅”,讲述了过去25年来困扰君主制的丑闻、爱情、权力游戏和背叛。在王母玛格丽特公主和她的伴侣菲利普亲王去世70年后,我们看到了女王坚忍的重新解决,以及她如何在举国欢庆的岁月中取得胜利,尽管家庭问题在她身边肆虐。布朗探究了查尔斯王子让卡米拉·帕克·鲍尔斯成为妻子的决心、威廉王子和哈里王子在“不同道路”上的紧张关系、凯特·米德尔顿的崛起、安·德鲁王子的倒台,以及哈里和梅根退居皇室高层的惊人决定。尽管脆弱的蒙纳希尽了最大努力,“永不再来”似乎很快就要到来。
蒂娜·布朗30年来一直在观察和记录英国君主制,她全面的叙述充满了有力的揭露、最新报道的细节,以及从与王室内部人士的非凡接触中获得的深刻见解。时尚、诙谐、博学的宫廷文件将不可逆转地改变世界对王室的看法和理解。
The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor–the Truth and the Turmoil
Tina Brown, “The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor–the Truth and the Turmoil”
The gripping 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
“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.
OR