The Agency: The Troubled Lifetime of the Home of Windsor

It could be exhausting to invent a bunch of personalities extra extraordinary than the British Royal Household – often called 'The Agency' by Prince Philip. With a watch on the previous, current and future, this ebook takes a take a look at how the household actually operates and divulges how they behave behind closed doorways.

This e book is created from the 2009 version.

With showbiz stars and sporting celebrities now attracting the adulation as soon as afforded to royalty, The Agency questions what monarchy is for.

Is it a hangover from the previous, an costly anachronism, a relic of a bygone age of deference and hierarchy, or is it an vital and related a part of Britain within the twenty first century – one thing that provides stability and continuity to the nation, and richness and glamour to our nationwide life in ways in which a republic by no means may? If that’s the case, do the media mock, hound and criticize the Royal Household at their peril? Has Prince Charles sacrificed the throne for love? May Prince William determine that the lengthy lenses and the scrutiny of his personal life is just too excessive a worth to pay?

Penny can even take a look at how the dynamics of the royal family have modified over the past 12 months and what repercussions these modifications may have. While within the hardback version Penny Junor was capable of talk about the implications of Charles and Camilla's marriage solely two months after it was introduced, the paperback guarantees to supply a number of latest surprises and implication for the way forward for the Home of Windsor, in addition to an inside view of how The Agency have taken of their latest member.

No matter occurs over the subsequent 12 months, we will make certain that Penny will replace this paperback version to make it a necessary purchase for anybody who has even a passing curiosity in Britain's most dysfunctional and interesting household.