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The New Royals
- Queen Elizabeth's Legacy and the Future of the Crown
- Narrated by: Heather Price
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
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Summary
Vanity Fair Royals correspondent and bestselling author of William and Harry and Kate explores the remarkable life and legacy of Queen Elizabeth II, with new chapters to include the last few months of her reign, and the rise of King Charles III.
For seventy years, Queen Elizabeth ruled over an institution and a family. During her lifetime she was constant in her desire to provide a steady presence and to be a trustworthy steward of the British people and the Commonwealth. In the face of her uncle’s abdication, in the uncertainty of the Blitz, and in the tentative exposure of her family and private life to the public via the press, Elizabeth became synonymous with the crown.
But times change. Recent years have brought grief and turmoil to the House of Windsor, and even as England celebrated the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, there were calls for a changing of the guard.
In The New Royals, journalist Katie Nicholl provides a nuanced look at Elizabeth’s remarkable and unrivalled reign, with new stories from Palace courtiers and aides, documentarians, and family members. She examines King Charles and Queen Consort Camilla’s decades in waiting and beyond—where “The Firm” is headed as William and Kate present the modern faces of an ancient institution. In the wake of Harry and Meghan leaving the Royal Family and Prince Andrew’s spectacular fall from grace, the royal family must reckon with its history, the light and the dark, in order to chart a course for Britain beyond its Queen and to show that it is an institution capable of leadership in an ever-changing modern world.
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- Ms Carol Young
- 13-10-22
Good read
informative and good insight into the future of the monarchy. truth of the dramas caused by Sussex couple
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-10-22
An interesting listen
I had been looking forward to this book but it didn’t enlighten me as much as I thought. Sadly it has been written for an American audience… despite it having a British author and British narrator… any money mentioned is told in Dollars and Meghan is pronounced ‘Maygan’ (a little annoying).
Despite all this it was a nice listen but wouldn’t rush to listen again.
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- Col Chastey
- 24-10-22
Repetitive!
I was really excited to listen to this having seen snippets in the media. I really hoped it would focus on how Charles will lead when he is crowned.
It doesn’t. There’s a passing chapter on that and the whole book is so repetitive it’s actually quite annoying.
If you know nothing about the royal family and are looking for background and some insight it’s ok, but it’s not a deep dive in the next chapter of our monarchy.
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- Kindle Customer
- 29-09-22
Waste of time
Told us nothing new felt like a old book very dull wasn’t impressed waste of time
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- Kirsten Funesderas
- 28-09-22
Overall it is a good book…
… BUT I feel as if the author doesn’t want to sound too critic of the Sussexes for fear of backlash. I get no one wants to have abuse, but when someone has lied, one should say it as it is. The Oprah interview was a lying parade. Could they have been great if they had been honest and didn’t just want to be stars and profit? Absolutely! But the fact is that they lied over and over and the harm they did not only to the Firm, but to their families is not something that can be fixed easily.
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- JOSEPHINE
- 01-10-22
Absolutely nothing we didn't already know
Absolutely nothing we didn't know already, no details no inner information.
Boring & far too general.
Considering this is a brand new book that came out after the Queens death I can't believe no mention of it, not even in the epilog.
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- mrs v e corby
- 09-10-22
Rehashed news
A lot of the information was old rehashed news. The pronunciation of Megan as Maygan was quite irritating.
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- Amazon Customer
- 01-10-22
Don’t bother - it’s just a run through of everything that’s already been in the press
Waste of a credit - don’t bother unless you haven’t read or listened to anything about the RF in recent years
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