Prologue: kryptonite -- Never again : the Royals confront a post-Diana world -- Sex and sensibility : why Charles loves Camilla -- The wilderness years : how Camilla hung in -- Mother of the nation : the Queen's twenty-first-century headaches -- A question of independence : how Elizabeth and Philip made it work -- Swan songs : Margaret and the Queen Mother leave the party -- Jubilee girl : the Queen's encore -- Servant problems : what the butler saw -- Camilla's line in the sand : a new duchess in the winners' enclosure -- The princes next door : William's and Harry's competing realities -- The lost boys : how the princes survived their childhood -- Enter Kate : William meets an extraordinary, ordinary girl -- Queen in waiting : Kate closes the deal -- The great escape : Harry the hero finds his way -- Snoopers : how the press stalked the Royals -- Gloriana : the Windsors' winning streak -- The duke of hazard : Andrew's money pit -- An inconvenient friend : the lure of Jeffrey Epstein -- Number six on the call sheet : Meghan Markle's world -- Flashman's flameout : Harry confronts his demons -- Smitten : the stars align for Harry and Meghan -- Magic kingdom : a wedding transforms the House of Windsor -- Unraveling : the monarchy's morning after -- Privacy and prejudice : surviving the Windsor fishbowl -- Scorched earth : "Annus Horribilis" redux -- Epilogue: embers.