With Pushkin+ audiobooks, you'll get access to a new Pushkin+ audiobook every other month. That's 6 free audiobooks a year! From July 1 to August 31, listen to Unroyal: Three Women Who Shook the Monarchy by Sarah Lyall. Pushkin+ subscribers also get access to ad-free listening, exclusive bonus episodes of podcasts like Cautionary Tales and Risky Business, full binges to our top true crime shows like Deep Cover, and more. Sign up now on the Apple show page or at pushkin.com/plus. One was a married American socialite who embarked on a scandalous affair with the future king of England. Another was an aristocratic ingenue whose winsome charm captured the world’s imagination. And the third was a thirty-something actress whose outspokenness put her on a collision course with the British public. The marriages of Wallis Simpson, Diana Spencer and Meghan Markle into the British royal family sparked a series of crises that at times seemed to threaten the future of the monarchy itself. In Unroyal, veteran New York Times reporter and former London correspondent Sarah Lyall revisits how each royal wife threatened the stability of – and was ultimately rejected by – this most ancient and opaque of institutions. Using archival material and interviews with experts like the bestselling author Tina Brown, the royal biographer Andrew Morton and the social commentator and broadcaster Afua Hirsch, Lyall’s audio documentary examines three pivotal TV interviews in which each woman pushed up against the official royal narrative: Wallis in 1970, Diana in 1995, and Meghan in 2021. Lyall describes the differences and highlights the similarities between the women at these three flexion points to examine the endless codependent dance between the monarchy, the public and the news media and to shed fresh light on the fraught intersection of power, fame and family politics in an institution torn between tradition and modernization. Narrated by the author against a beguiling soundscape of contemporaneous news footage and a spectral score, Unroyal blends the probing inquisition of You’re Wrong About with the historical intrigue of "The Crown", serving both neophytes and obsessives a delectable royal feast for the ears.
From veteran New York Times culture reporter and Royals correspondent Sarah Lyall, Pushkin Industries presents Unroyal: Three Women Who Shook the Monarchy.
Wallis Simpson, Diana Spencer and Meghan Markle all married into–and promptly challenged–the British royal family. In Unroyal, Sarah Lyall revisits the trio’s attempts to modernize the world’s most famous monarchy over the course of the last century...
There are three notable people missing from the May 2023 coronation of King Charles III: Wallis Simpson, Diana Spencer, and Meghan Markle. These three outsiders each fell in love with a member of the royal family during different eras, created scandalous headlines, and ultimately challenged the monarchy’s core beliefs and enduring values. They offer a keyhole into the inscrutable inner workings of the royal family and provide...
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