The Royals - by Kitty Kelley (Paperback)

About the Book

Originally published by Hachette Book Group, 1997.

Book Synopsis

The #1 New York Times bestselling, controversial portrait of the British royal family -- as told from behind the palace walls -- for fans of Netflix's The Crown and all royal watchers

They are the most chronicled family on the face of the globe. Their every move attracts headlines. Now Kitty Kelley has gone behind the scenes at Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and Kensington Palace to raise the curtain on the men and women who make up the British royal family. Queen Elizabeth, Prince Charles, Princess Diana...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. No one is spared.

Review Quotes

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

"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

"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

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

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.