Autobiography of the Queen

by Emma Tennant

Book Overview

Queen Elizabeth has gone AWOL from Balmoral, and no one can find her. Where has she gone and why? This winsome, if unlikely, account of the Queen's disappearance recounts the monarch's solo journey to the Caribbean island of St. Lucia to take possession of her recently purchased home in the idyllic-sounding Joli Estate. Here, after more than half a century on the throne, she will recall the years of her reign in peace and tranquility, in the guise...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1905147880
• ISBN13: 9781905147885
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Arcadia Books
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

Whimsy

This is a quick, amusing read that's just the thing to read in between heavier works. The Queen decides that she's had enough of being on duty for her entire lifetime and is equally sick of the scandals and ructions caused by her own troublesome children and cranky husband, so flies first class to one of the Virgin Islands where she's made a down payment on a soon to be built villa. Calling herself Mrs.Gloria Smith, she has no luggage with her as her luggage has always previously been transported to wherever she goes and she somehow assumes that things will just keep happening as before. Playing the role of an ordinary person, she is amazed at the lack of courtesy from people who should know better and the effort required by ordinary mortals, just to live from day to day. She somehow manages to serenely sail through a few days, relying on the kindness of strangers to make things happen. It's a strangely moving little book and I'm not sure that HM would perceive herself as quite as inept and other worldly as Mrs.Gloria Smith.