The Royals : - Hardcover

Kitty Kelley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0446517127 ISBN 13: 9780446517126

Publisher: Warner Books, 1997

Synopsis

They are the most chronicled family on the face of the globe. Their every move attracts headlines. Scores of books have tried and failed to penetrate the royal facade. Now Kitty Kelley has gone behind palace walls to provide the first three-dimensional, comprehensive, and evenhanded portrait of the men and women who make up the British Royal family. Kelley spent more than four years investigating the royal family. In addition to meticulous research into documented sources, she conducted hundreds of exclusive interviews with past and present employees of the royal household, royal friends and relations, courtiers, members of Parliament, and other intimate observers, raising the curtain on this most secretive family. Here are lonely royal children brought up without a proper education in isolated and artificial surroundings, twentieth-century adolescents with nineteenth-century touchstones. Here are the sexual ambiguities, the alcoholism, gambling, and womanizing that were common in the House of Windsor long before Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer. No one is spared; here are the scandals of the last decades: the doomed marriages, and the husbands, wives, lovers and children caught in their wake and damaged beyond repair. Illuminating the Windsors' arrogance, nai vete , and lusts as well as hard work, dedication, and ability to survive the most humiliating disclosures, "The Royals" is Kitty Kelley's richest, most iconoclastic, historically significant, and compelling work.

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Review:

"Pages that genuinely illuminate the careers of the flawed humans who have occupied and circled the throne this century. Never before have all the stories about all the bit players, from Prince Philip to Princess Margaret, from the Queen Mother to the grimly devoted old courtiers, been collected in a single, useful place." -Washington Post Book World

"Salacious...irreverent...juicy details...the product of four years' research...Regarded as the most sensational of her scandal-packed oeuvre...Gripping." - Chicago Sun Times

"Kelley's pen is mightier than the sword." - Houston Voice

"The larger, hotter rumors are as interesting for the way they are presented and justified as for what they contain." - The New Yorker

"Miss Kelley is a fine writer and indefatigable researcher...She has lost none of her edge here in The Royals...A delightful read...As early as the second page, Miss Kelley is referring to the royal family's 'secrets of alcoholism, drug addiction, insanity, homosexuality, bisexuality, adultery, infidelity and illegitimacy' in this century. None of this is exaggerated, none of it is false." - Washington Times--

About the Author:

Kitty Kelley is an internationally acclaimed writer whose last book OPRAH: A Biography was a major bestseller. Before that her books about Nancy Reagan and Frank Sinatra set publishing records. Jackie Oh! and Elizabeth Taylor: the Last Star were also international bestsellers. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband.

About this edition

• Publisher: Warner Books
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0446517127
• ISBN 13: 9780446517126
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 547
• Editor: Vincent Virga