Mrs Queen Takes the Train
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After decades of service and years of watching her family's troubles splashed across the tabloids, Britain's Queen is beginning to feel her age. An unexpected opportunity offers her relief: an impromptu visit to a place that holds happy memories-- the former royal yacht, Britannia, now moored near Edinburgh.
… More »After decades of service and years of watching her family's troubles splashed across the tabloids, Britain's Queen is beginning to feel her age. An unexpected opportunity offers her relief: an impromptu visit to a place that holds happy memories-- the former royal yacht, Britannia, now moored near Edinburgh. When her royal attendants discovers she is missing, they set out to find her and bring her back before her absence becomes a national scandal.
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Add a CommentRead this if you're an Anglophile. The backstage bits about The Queen & her servants ring true. Was not convinced by what eventually happened to William, though.
Very amusing fiction about Queen Elizabeth II.
What a peculiar book. I didn't like it for the first 300 pages. It does not follow a linear progression, so I was often lost as to whether we were still in present day or if we'd stepped back into somebody's memory. The fact that it's fiction, yet includes real pictures from real events in Queen Elizabeth II's life was a little disorienting as well. I'm still not entirely certain of my opinion.
This book had its funny moments. The characters were creatively conceived. The portrait of the Queen, however, was so far from what I've seen that I just couldn't accept that it had that connection to reality that good satire needs. Or maybe it needed to be further off the wall and turned into a farce. Mostly it made me feel sorry for the Queen. It's a fun book, but Sue Townsend is better.
Completely charming and thoughtful examination of a few days in the life of The Queen, who in a moment of ennui, ventures out of the palace and onto the train bound for Edinburgh. The supporting cast includes an Iraq war veteran, an Indian-American cheesemonger and poet, a down on her luck elderly aristocrat, and one of The Queen's young horsewomen. If you liked Uncommon Reader (which is dryly name-checked in this book), you'll love Mrs. Queen Takes the Train.