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    The Firm: The Troubled Life of the House of Windsor
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    The Firm: The Troubled Life of the House of Windsor
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    The Firm: The Troubled Life of the House of Windsor

    By Penny Junor

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJan 30, 2014
    ISBN9780007393336
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    The Firm: The Troubled Life of the House of Windsor
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    Penny Junor

    Penny Junor is a writer and broadcaster. She is the author of previous best-selling biographies of both the Prince and the Princess of Wales, and two British Prime Ministers. For many years she presented ‘The Travel Show’ on BBC2, and Channel 4’s consumer programme ‘For What It’s Worth’. She is married with four children and lives in Wiltshire.

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    • 1/5
      I used to paint t-shirts and sail over to this rather exclusive island one morning a week and hang them in the coconut and grape trees on a quite secluded beach to sell them. Princess Diana was there one morning sitting with her children quite close by. Her Lady in Waiting looked through the t-shirts and asked if she could take some of them over to her and I watched as the Princess sorted through them, eventually buying six. The Princess waved and mouthed, "They're lovely, thank you". That made my day! Next day, my friend who owned a hotel on an out-island, sent over a selection of sarongs to the Princess hoping to get a thank-you letter she could frame, but the boatman returned the gifts with a verbal message, "The Princess does not accept unsolicited gifts." Hehe!

      The author, Ms Junor, I thought, must have decided that slurring the late Princess with all sorts of suppositions and quotes from unnamed "sources" would definitely gain her kudos in Prince Charles' eyes and the eyes of his rottweiler wife she so adores and perhaps facilitate interviews and even invitations to the royal events she so likes to attend. But I was wrong.

      She's a scandalmonger, a paparazzi-with-words whose previous book published in the year after Diana's death, 'Charles: Victim or Villain?" was deplored by the entire royal family who had given no interviews nor authorised the book. She has also been successfully sued for libel for malicious rubbish she's written about others in the small, tight world of the aristocracy she's such a groupie of. The book is a waste of time and leaves a bad taste in your mouth, just like finishing a glass of wine the day after the dinner: vinegar and you know you shouldn't even have bothered.

      Recommended: for puppy-training, the paper is sufficiently absorbent.