New York Times Bestseller. The and addictively readable and (The Washington Post) inside story of the British royal family's battle to overcome the dramas of the Diana yearsonly to confront new, twenty-first-century crises and Frothy and forthright, a kind of Keeping Up with the Windsor's with sprinkles of Keats. and The New York Times (Notable Book of the Year)One Of The Best Books Of The Year- The Washington Post, Elle, Town and Country and Never again and became Queen Elizabeth Ii's mantra shortly after Princess Diana's tragic death. More specif­ically, there could never be and another Dianaanda 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.