Best Royal Reads in the Jubilee Year
With the Platinum Jubilee around the corner, there has been an influx of Royal-related tomes hitting bookshelves. The Crown Courtier has gone through the recent releases to create a curated list for Royal fans around the world.
Queen of Our Times: The Life of Queen Elizabeth II by Robert Hardman
A portrait of a queen who has reigned through more seismic social change than any monarch in British history. From the Abdication to the Sussexes, from World War II to the loss of her life-long partner, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has witnessed family crises on a scale not seen since the days of George III. Queen of Our Times distils The Queen's complex life into a must-read study of survival and renewal about a world leader who remains as intriguing today as she was the day she came to the Throne.
A Royal Life by HRH The Duke of Kent and Hugo Vickers
HRH The Duke of Kent has been at the heart of the British Royal Family throughout his life. As a working member of the Royal Family, he has supported his cousin, The Queen, representing her at home and abroad. Other members of the Royal Family contribute their memories and the book contains never before seen photographs from his private collection.
The Palace Papers reveals how the Royal Family reinvented itself after the traumatic years when Diane's torrent celebrity ripped through the House of Windsor. Readers will journey through the scandals, love affairs, power plays, and betrayal that has hit the monarchy over the last 25 years - including Prince Charles's determination to make Camilla Parker Bowels his wife, the deaths of the Queen's sister, mother, and husband, and William and Harry's "different paths."
Scandals of the Royal Palaces: An Intimate Memoir of Royal Behaving Badly by Tom Quinn
Dozens of royal scandals have been covered up or suppressed to some degree by an establishment that is famous for its determination to keep royal secrets secret. Scandals of the Royal Palaces is an in-depth look at the outrageous of the royals, palace officials, courtiers, household servants, and hangers-on. It also includes new information on well known and no so well known scandals, including those that have only recently been revealed in detail through the release of pervious secret official papers.
The Queen: 70 Years of Majestic Style by Bethan Holt
As a woman whose views are never heard, Queen Elizabeth II has deployed fashion as a means to communicate and signal her position to the crowds who gather to see her in public and the millions who watch her television broadcasts. The Queen: 70 Years of Majestic Style celebrates the fashion evolution of Elizabeth II in her unprecedented Platinum Jubilee year.
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