Kensington Palace

An Intimate Memoir from Queen Mary to Meghan Markle

Tom Quinn

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Biteback Publishing
01 September 2020

Biography: royalty; History; British & Irish history

For more than 200 years the younger members of the British royal family - including future monarchs - have lived at Kensington Palace, alongside royal aunts and uncles, distant cousins and assorted aristocratic eccentrics.

Kensington Palace has been the scene of countless bizarre events - here, for example, the young Queen Victoria was held a virtual prisoner for eighteen years; and it was from Kensington Palace that Queen Caroline ran the country while her husband George II moved his pictures around.

In more recent times, Kensington Palace was famously the scene of Charles and Diana's nightmare marriage and Charles's serial adulteries. But then Kensington Palace has a long history of royal philandering. George II installed his wife and mistress in the palace, for example, and made his mistress sleep in a room so damp there were said to be mushrooms growing on the walls.

And then there were the eccentrics. George III's sixth son, Augustus, Duke of Sussex, became a virtual recluse at the palace. He collected hundreds of clocks and mechanical toys, thousands of early Bibles and dozens of songbirds that were allowed to fly freely through the royal apartments. Today, the palace is home to the future King William and his wife Catherine, and until recently home to the newly married Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Harry and Meghan.

The palace has been described as a royal menagerie, a hive of industrious freeloaders, an ant heap and even a lunatic asylum.

Using extensive interviews with former and serving Kensington Palace staff, Tom Quinn takes the reader behind the official version of palace history to discover intriguing, sometimes wild, often scandalous, but frequently heart-warming stories.

By: Tom Quinn
Imprint: Biteback Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 135mm,
ISBN: 9781785904790
ISBN 10: 1785904795
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 01 September 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Tom Quinn is the author of Backstairs Billy: The Life of William Tallon, the Queen Mother's Most Devoted Servant, Mrs Keppel: Mistress to the King and The Reluctant Billionaire: The Tragic Life of Gerald Grosvenor, Sixth Duke of Westminster (all Biteback Publishing). He lives in London.

Reviews for Kensington Palace: An Intimate Memoir from Queen Mary to Meghan Markle

A sparkling account of the often very unregal goings-on at the palace. Richly laced with insider gossip, this is behind-the-scenes royal history at its most entertaining. - Jane Shilling, Daily Mail A fascinating must-read. - Bella