Review: Tina Brown’s royal revelations spare no one, especially Meghan Markle
“The Palace Papers,” which focuses primarily on the Windsor women, is an episodic examination of the royal family’s difficulties since the death of Diana in 1997. Featuring a combination of preexisting press accounts and Brown’s own reporting, it’s high-minded and gossipy, and addictively readable, despite a slow first half spent revisiting the well-trod history of the Diana Years. Much like the royal family itself, it gets more interesting when Meghan comes along.
The couple, who made up in charisma what they lacked in self-awareness, brought out the worst in each other, Brown writes. “The Sussexes fueled each other’s distrust of everybody else,” she observes, “and Harry’s wife was as temperamentally combative as he was.”In “The Palace Papers” as in life, Markle was constantly measured against her sister-in-law.
The hapless Prince Charles is “the male version of Calamity Jane,” his every press cycle upstaged by his more glamorous children. Only Charles’s second wife, Camilla, whom Brown depicts as horse-y and unflappable, escapes royal vivisection.Brown applies a scalpel to most of the royals but takes a sledgehammer to Meghan, whose irony-free enthusiasm is seen as un-British.
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