The Secret Royals av Rory (Author) Cormac

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<p><b>A <i>Daily Mail </i>Book of the Year and </b><b>a <i>The Times</i> and <i>Sunday Times</i> Best Book of 2021</b><br><b><br>''Monumental.. Authoritative and highly readable.'' Ben Macintyre, <i>The Times</i></b><br><br><b>''A fascinating history of royal espionage.'' <i>Sunday Times</i></b><br><br><b>''Excellent... Compelling'' <i>Guardian</i></b><br><br><br>For the first time, <i>The</i><i>Secret Royals</i> uncovers the remarkable relationship between the Royal Family and the intelligence community, from the reign of Queen Victoria to the death of Princess Diana. <br><br>In an enthralling narrative, Richard J. Aldrich and Rory Cormac show how the British secret services grew out of persistent attempts to assassinate Victoria and then operated on a private and informal basis, drawing on close personal relationships between senior spies, the aristocracy, and the monarchy. This reached its zenith after the murder of the Romanovs and the Russian revolution when, fearing a similar rev