Tom Quinn

New from the bestselling author of Backstairs Billy: The Life of William Tallon, the Queen Mother's Most Devoted Servant and Kensington Palace: An Intimate Memoir from Queen Mary to Meghan Markle. For as long as the British royal family has existed, royal children have been brought up in ways that seem bizarre and eccentric to the rest of us. The...

'Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.' - Henry Fielding George Orwell once said that the British love a really good murder. He might also have said that the only thing the British love more than a good murder is a really good scandal, and best of all are the political and sexual scandals that take place in...

What really makes the British royal family tick? It's a question that royal watchers have pondered for as long as there has been a royal family. And the answer?Well, surprisingly, it's not the royal family's devotion to duty, it's not their wealth or their status, it's not even their popularity (or notoriety!). No, what really makes the royal family tick...

A smorgasbord of scandals Tatler The revelations are as juicy as can be Harper's Bazaar What really makes the royal family tick? It's a question that royal watchers have pondered for as long as the monarchy has existed. And who better to ask than the army of servants and staff, past and present, who feed and clothe the royals, organise...

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. It was from Kensington Palace...