The Palace Papers - Inside the House of Windsor--the Truth and the Turmoil

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext "Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Crown, an imprint of Random House...in 2022." Leseprobe Prologue Kryptonite The Oprah Winfrey interview with Prince Harry and Meghan, Duke and Duchess of Sussex, in March 2021 was one of the most ballyhooed in television history. It was recorded one year after their bolt for the royal exit in the palmy gardens of an undisclosed mansion in Montecito, their California Elba perched high above the Pacific coast. Oprah’s outsized glasses magnified her wonder at the couple’s nuclear revelations about the House of Windsor. “Were you silent or were you silenced ?” the TV oracle demanded in her most commanding tone over the ominous soundtrack in the teaser to the two-­hour special. The camera panned to Meghan’s narrowed eyes, then cut off before we could learn her response. Forty-­nine million people globally tuned in to find out. The Duchess wore smoky, tragedy eye makeup, first deployed by Diana, Princess of Wales, in her notorious interview with Martin Bashir, and her hair was in a low bun for confessional gravitas. There was much parsing amongst Meghan fans of the white lotus detail (resurrection!) on the long black Giorgio Armani dress belted high over her baby bump. Royal code breakers noted that on Meghan’s left wrist was her late mother-­in-­law’s Cartier diamond tennis bracelet, signifying that the mantle of wronged royal woman was now hers. Harry, for his part, was lambasted on Twitter for the sartorial fail of his disconsolately saggy socks and undistinguished J.Crew suit. The main theme of his complaint was that his dad, the Prince of Wales, had misread his statement about seeking financial independence and cut off his money. A damning charge sheet was presented by the House of Sussex: institutional disregard of Meghan’s mental health; the Palace’s inaction at her character assassination by the press; family jealousy; and, most serious of all, the explosive charge of racism against an unnamed Royal Family member who had raised “concerns” about how dark-­skinned the unborn Archie could be. It was kryptonite. Prince William’s terse response several days later to press trailing him on an engagement was: “We are very much not a racist family.” But how would he know? Meghan Markle is the first person of color to marry a Mountbatten-­Windsor, and the diversity percentage amongst Buckingham Palace employees is 8.5 percent. The social media maelstrom immediately showed a heated transatlantic divide in the audience reaction. Americans who have never forgiven the Windsors for their rejection of Diana mostly cheered the Sussexes for blowing the whistle on the monarchy’s whole crumbling theme-­park enterprise. Against the backdrop of the Black Lives Matter movement, the racism allegation only confirmed that royal dinosaurs should no longer rule the earth. Even President Biden’s press secretary Jen Psaki weighed in, praising Meghan’s courage for airing her anxiety and depression. The British reaction predominantly went the other way—outrage at the display of such arrant disrespect for the monarchy and an angry focus on the many disputable, unchallenged claims by the couple. There was wide...

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Tina Brown
• Edition: Crown Publishing Group
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 07.02.2023
• EAN: 9780593138113
• ISBN: 978-0-593-13811-3
• Pages: 608
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 203 mm x 31 mm
• Catégorie: Littérature > Littérature (récits) > Correspondance, journaux intimes