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Giselle Bastin, Associate Professor of English, Flinders University

From dummy spits to a 'sleaze machine': Tina Brown's The Palace Papers is a delectable account of a soap opera family

Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle photographed in 2018. John Stillwell/AP

Those of us interested in biographies of the House of Windsor have awaited Tina Brown’s The Palace Papers with much anticipation. Her 2007 book, The Diana Chronicles, was a New York Times bestseller, cementing Brown’s reputation as a royal biographer exemplar.

A former editor-in-chief of Tatler, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker, in 2000 Brown was awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Empire) by Queen Elizabeth II for her services to journalism.

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