书籍简介

在戴安娜王妃不幸去世后不久，"再也不会 "成为女王伊丽莎白二世说得较多的话。更确切地说，永远不可能有 "另一个戴安娜"——一个在全球范围内受欢迎的成员，其知名度超过了英国君主制，并对其构成了生存威胁。

从蒂娜·布朗的杰作《戴安娜编年史》开始，《宫廷文件》揭示了在戴安娜如彗星般轰动温莎王室的那几年，王室如何重塑自我。

布朗带领读者在过去25年里，通过丑闻、恋情、权力游戏和背叛，对君主制进行了一次强有力的旅行。我们看到了女王在太后玛格丽特公主和她七十年来的伴侣菲利普亲王去世后的坚定决心，以及她如何在她的银禧年中取得胜利，即使她周围的家庭麻烦不断。布朗探讨了查尔斯王子让卡米拉·帕克·鲍尔斯成为其妻子的决心，威廉和哈里在 "不同道路 "上的紧张关系，凯特·米德尔顿的上位，安德鲁王子的堕落，以及哈里和梅根作为高级王室成员退位的惊人决定。尽管这个脆弱的君主制做出了努力，但 "不再 "似乎很快就会到来。

蒂娜·布朗三十年来一直在观察和记录英国君主制，她的报道充满了强有力的启示、新报道的细节以及从皇室内部人士那里收集到的尖锐的洞察力。《宫廷文件》时尚、诙谐、博学，将不可逆转地改变世界对王室的看法和理解。

“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.

作者简介

蒂娜·布朗是一位获奖作家，是《Tatler》、《Vanity Fair》和《The New Yorker》的前主编，也是《每日野兽》和现场活动平台《Women in the World》的创始人。她是《纽约时报》畅销书《戴安娜编年史》的作者，2017年她出版了《名利场日记》，被《时代》、《人物》、《卫报》、《经济学家》、《娱乐周刊》和《时尚》选为年度书籍之一。2000年，她被英国女王伊丽莎白二世授予CBE（大英帝国司令）称号，以表彰她对新闻业的贡献。她住在纽约市。

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.