The Royals by Kitty Kelley

The Royals by Kitty Kelley

They are the most chronicled family on the face of the globe. Their every move attracts headlines. Scores of books have tried and failed to penetrate the royal facade. Now Kitty Kelley has gone behind palace walls to provide the first three-dimensional, comprehensive, and evenhanded portrait of the men and women who make up the British Royal family.

Kelley spent more than four years investigating the royal family. In addition to meticulous research into documented sources, she conducted hundreds of exclusive interviews with past and present employees of the royal household, royal friends and relations, courtiers, members of Parliament, and other intimate observers, raising the curtain on this most secretive family. Here are lonely royal children brought up without a proper education in isolated and artificial surroundings, 20th-century adolescents with 19th-century touchstones. Here are the sexual ambiguities, the alcoholism, gambling, and womanizing that were common in the House of Windsor long before Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer. No one is spared; 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.

Illuminating the Windsors' arrogance, naivete, and lusts--as well as hard work, dedication, and ability to survive the most humiliating disclosures--The Royals is Kitty Kelley's richest, most iconoclastic, historically significant, and compelling work.

Jackie Oh! by Kitty Kelley is an internationally acclaimed successful book. The past four books on the New York Times bestselling list were all number one. Kelley has been recognized by her colleagues with prizes such as the American Society of Journalists and Writers' Distinguished Author Award for her brave writing on popular culture, and the Philip M. The Lotos Club of New York City awarded her the Medal of Merit, and the 2005 PEN Oakland Literary Censorship Award for her remarkable dedication to writers and the writing industry. The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, People, Ladies' Home Journal, McCall's, the Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Tribune have all published her work. She and her physician husband, Jonathan Zucker, live in Washington, D.C.