What a Thing to Say to the Queen: A Collection of Royal Anecdotes from the House of Windsor

by Thomas Blaikie

Book Overview

About thirty years ago the Guardian first published two amusing anecdotes about the Queen Mother. Readers reeled to see stories actually printed in a national newspaper that until then had had only an underground existence in certain circles. After that, tales about the royal family became respectable; they were also, quite rightly, believed to be true. Taken as a whole they reflect the contradictory roles we like royalty to fulfil: unworldly and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781314411
• ISBN13: 9781781314418
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Aurum Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.4" x 7.1"