Ninety-nine percent of this book was already known to me as I was an adult before she was married to Prince Charles, and followed her history avidly. The highly anticipated engagement was the first time the brothers have been seen together publicly since the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral in April. He lost his nanny, he lost the trustworthy Sandy Henney when she was forced to resign as press secretary for a mistake not of her making.

She knew how devastated her boys had been by their father’s on-camera confession of infidelity with Camilla Parker Bowles in Jonathan Dimbleby’s 1994 ITV documentary, and how truly mortified they felt when Princess in Love came out.She told us her story of loneliness and hurt at Charles’s hands with an irresistible soulful intimacy that sucked us in, then switched to a startlingly sophisticated vision of how she planned to leverage her celebrity for the causes she cared about with a series of TV specials, 24 years before Harry and Meghan’s incoherent multimedia plans.

I wasn't sure what to think when I saw this was "written" by James Patterson (or, rather, is churned out by his "writing" factory) but decided to give it a try. One evening she suggested they instead dine at Harry’s Bar and have a dance or two afterward at Annabel’s.

Patterson covers Princes William and Harry's loves as well, so this is a concise telling of forty years of Windsor history at over 400 pages, with some lovely color photos included. Adapted from the book The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor—the Truth and the Turmoil by Tina Brown.