Friday, June 10, 2022

The Palace Papers

The Palace Papers, by Tina Brown. As the cover image illustrates, this book is focused on the women of the royal family, but not exclusively. Everyone gets dished about equally. I did learn some new things about some of the royal family, much abour Meghan. But at a certain point I really did not want to spend more time with these people. A lot the writing about Prince Andrew I just skipped over. Ok the guy is an ass, I didn't need to know how his assiness manifests itself.

But Tina Brown is an excellent writer, and I was at times amazed by her vocabulary. This does not happen often with modern writers. In all I was really left with the 'what happens after she is gone', which is a major theme of the book.