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The Royals
- Narrated by: Jennifer Van Dyck
- Length: 20 hrs and 28 mins
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Publisher's Summary
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, naiveté , 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.
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- Laurie
- 11-07-17
Ties the Tin Can On Them
Most Americans know very little of the inside scoop on the current royal family. This book was a real eye-opener for me. She really knows how to wipe the polish off them and show them with all their flaws -- and there are many.
About the only thing she did not say (maybe because it's obvious) is that their behavior has to be put into some kind of historical context. The nobility was never really expected to display exemplary character until the 20th century. Prior to that, they could be, and were, pretty beastly. The royal family and most of the noble families have not evolved because they've been swaddled in the cotton batting of privilege and wealth. You've got to cut them a little break for not changing their behavior and attitudes as rapidly as the rest of the world. But just a LITTLE break! It's high time for some changes.
Good book and difficult to stop listening, even though I know some of these stories --
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- Sheila
- 02-12-16
A titillating and delightful insight....
I love Kitty Kelley's work and this is about a far and truthful insight I believe you're going to get. Riveting from beginning to end, I found the only thing to irk me a bit was the narrator's occasional mispronunciation, (Al, as in the word pal, thorp. Diana Spencer's home of Althorp should have been pronounced All-throp). A slight oddity, I accept, but that's just how we pronounce it here. I found a few of these. Apart from a few of these little slip ups in the narration - which would never have bothered the reader, only the audiobook listener - I loved The Royals and couldn't stop listening to it. I think though the exploits of the Duke have been underplayed, but, at the risk of making the story too much about him, I suppose the finished product is well rounded and very entertaining.
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- Kimmi Troy
- 11-07-16
A Juicy listen! Long, but ICouldn't stop listening
If you love Real Housewives and celebrity gossip, you will love this. While I personally believe about 75% of this as fact, Kelley definitely didher research from other interviews and reports spanning decades.
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- Shorton25
- 03-22-17
Very Informative!
What did you love best about The Royals?
The insiders information. I didn't know that Prince Philip had so many trysts.
What did you like best about this story?
The author's ability to bring history to life. I enjoyed hearing about Queen Elizabeth's family.
Have you listened to any of Jennifer Van Dyck’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
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Prince William and Prince Harry's upbringing was rather sad although brought up with many things, nothing can take the place of a loving family. I was disgusted by Princess Fergie's shenanigans.
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- Dorothy Stovall
- 02-19-15
Very interesting
I thought this biography to be well written and insightful. if you're interested in the British royal family, you'll find this paced nicely and informative without being plodding. It fills in a lot of gaps and explains the back story of the current royals and their foibles. of course, it was written before there was the Middleton family, so there's nothing more recent really than Prince Charles and Camila. the voice recording is good and pleasant to listen too. All in all a worthwhile story.
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- Sharon
- 06-28-21
Narrators voice unpleasant
I almost stopped listening to this book shortly after starting it, due to the voice of the narrator. She sounds irritated or angry all the time. The story was compelling enough for me to see it through until the end.
I was not aware of a lot of the royal family “affairs” before Diana’s time. That’s when I became interested, being intrigued with her, as so many others were. No real surprises.
They sure were a dysfunctional, pathetic group of people at times.
I’m not sure what the draw is. It’s kind of like coming across a bad accident; you don’t want to look but you can’t help yourself!
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- Judy
- 05-17-20
Inside Buck House
Typical Kitty Kelley fare: lots of gossipy tidbits tucked into a description of the German Royals who rule Great Britain.
The narration would be ok if it weren't for Jennifer Van Dyck's mispronunciation of so many words and names. Many British names don't sound the way they look - Berkshire and Althorp being two prime examples - but competent professional narrators check these out before committing the text to audio. Worse still, Van Dyck displays an appalling ignorance of names that a reasonably well educated person should know: Pepys, (sounds like Peeps, not "Peppys") Maori, (sounds like Mowry, not "May-or- ee") and a whole string of other words that a professional should know, such as commandant, codicil, prescient. The list of her missteps is lengthy and embarrassing.
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- Chris
- 05-21-16
Tragic story...
Their lives would've been different if it were not for modern technology, paparazzi, etc. I've read about this royal family's ancestors who behaved the same but got away with so much because of the times they lived in...no cameras, no tv news, no radio, no cell phones or wiretapping.
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- Grannie Annie
- 03-16-20
The Royals
Fascinating read. Grew up in England at the same time as the Princesses. Buy it.
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- Tyler Habiger
- 12-15-19
An Excellent Introduction to the Royal Family
For fans of The Crown and other recent films and stories on the House of Windsor, Kitty Kelley’s book on the Royal Family is a good introduction to one of history’s most fascinating and controversial families. Beginning with George V and taking the reader through Edward IX, George VI and the current monarch, readers are treated to stories of the Royal Family and their deeds both good and bad. While some facts are now contradicted by new information, readers will be enthralled by tales only a Royal can spin. An excellent audiobook presentation and performance.
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- Ann D
- 08-02-14
More accurate than the media drivel!
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I suspect Kitty Kelley received heavy criticism because her books reveal things that powerful people don't want revealed. Her sources here are former servants, formal documents and people who have witnessed interactions between each of these royals and others at public events. When the book was published, it was trashed as fantasy and rubbish. Since then solid evidence has come to light that confirms much of what Kelley wrote, including the two Royal children who were 'stored' in a psychiatric hospital until they died recently, this because their Learning Disabilities were considered an embarrassment.
This book is well written and narrated.
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- Tim Lee
- 11-08-16
The narrator?!?!
I've always enjoyed Kitty Kelley's writing - but please re-record this one with someone familiar with English names and pronunciations! Ms Van Dyck commits dozens of errors, many of which are painful - Althrop, Altrincham, Home (as in the PM), even Jacqueline (as in Kennedy) to mention just a few. It gets irritating really quickly.
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- Eileen
- 01-19-16
Fantastic listen
Excellent story and an eye opener for sure. Highly recommend.Changed my view of the Monarcy somewhat
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- Mrs F
- 12-15-17
Not well researched
The narrator insists on calling Diana " the Princess of Wales ". - she was never called the Princess of Wales in the U.K. - she was Diana Princess of Wales or Princess Diana . The use of the word Monarchy split up into three vowels is so irritating - MON - ARCH -Y - why ?
Every Duke is called DOOK . Apart from the narration the book is ok , not great but ok .
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- The Librarian
- 12-09-20
A lazy narration full of mispronunciations
I enjoyed this as a book, but the narration was constantly infuriating and full of mistakes. Of course, it’s an American book and one expects American pronunciation, but this reading constantly gets basic slightly unusual words wrong - furore, for example - and, most infuriatingly, just about every proper name in the book. Maybe Althorpe and St John and Slough are forgiveable, if lazy, but when she doesn’t even know how to say Pepys, or Canterbury...
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- Ke Donn
- 08-28-19
Disappointing
sadly this book has 2 things going against it
1) The narration is awful. when I listened to the sample I thought it would be ok despite the reviews but it gets worse as you go on
2) it feels like a snarky gossip column which is a shame because there are also some quite interesting bits but I got to chapter 4 and decided to return the book
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- Kirsty Morris
- 07-09-21
Awful
Awful, awful, awful book, full of sensationalism and factual inaccuracies. narration that was painful to listen to due to the continually mispronounced names and place names. I really don't rate it in the slightest.
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- Campesque
- 08-04-20
Entertaining
I rather enjoyed revisiting the history of this rather strange bunch of chancers. I've never been a royalist and listening to this has not changed by mind in any way. It's always interesting to look at ourselves through the eyes of a non-Brit, and the antics of the Windsors, combined with the reverence they receive from certain quarters, is enough to make us a global laughing stock.
The narration was pretty dire to be honest. The pronunciation had me chuckling on many occasions. But the book was written by an American so it's fair enough that it was narrated by an American.
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- Angelcritique
- 01-09-20
Outrageously biased against the British Royals
I am so disappointed to find this book overtly biased against the British Royal Family. But considering that it's written by Kitty Kelly I should have expected it. Hoping to discover new information about them and their lives, I found only a regurgitating of hackneyed so called 'facts' concerning them. Mostly fabrication and tittle tattle. What a let down.
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- Kindle Customer
- 12-05-19
A royal performance.
I like reading about the royals or in this case listening to a story about them. So it is no surprise that I chose this title. I liked listening to this audio and it was ably read. However many books you read about the royals (and there are many) there are different slants on their lives, be it pro, anti, hostile, or toadying. You pays your money you makes your choice. Is there anything different in this book that we didn't already know? Well, in my opinion for what it is worth there are always slight differences it just depends on the author and how they choose to tell the story. I liked it (but, I'm a royalist), others may not. You pays your money you makes your choice.
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- H. Anthony
- 02-07-20
Absolutely ghastly narrator, kept skipping forward
Kept skipping forward hoping it would get better, it didn't. I returned it, I'll keep looking!