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Includes bibliographical references (pages 509-541) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Prologue: Kryptonite -- Never again: the royals confront a post-Diana world -- Sex and sensibility: why Charles loves Camilla -- The wilderness years: how Camilla hung in -- Mother of the nation: the Queen's twenty-first-century headaches -- A question of independence: how Elizabeth and Philip made it work -- Swan songs: Margaret and the Queen Mother leave the party -- Jubilee girl: the Queen's encore -- Servant problems: what the butler saw -- Camilla's line in the sand: a new duchess in the winners' enclosure -- The princes next door: William's and Harry's competing realities -- The lost boys: how the princes survived their childhood -- Enter Kate: William meets and extraordinary, ordinary girl -- Queen in waiting: Kate closes the deal -- The great escape: Harry the hero finds his way -- Snoopers: how the press stalked the royals -- Gloriana: the Windsors' winning streak -- The duke of hazard: Andrew's money pit -- An inconvenient friend: the lure of Jeffrey Epstein -- Number six on the call sheet: Meghan Markle's world -- Flashman's flameout: Harry confronts his demons -- Smitten: the stars align for Harry and Meghan -- Magic kingdom: a wedding transforms the house of Windsor -- Unraveling: the monarchy's morning after -- Privacy and prejudice: surviving the Windsor fishbowl -- Scorched Earth: "annus horribilis" redux -- Epilogue: Embers.
Summary, etc.:
The author of The Diana Chronicles takes readers inside the British royal family since the death of Princess Diana, showing the Queen's stoic resolve as family drama raged around her.
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