A touching and funny memoir of how one man's life became interwoven with the Royal family, seeing them with their guard down as we never do.
Theo Aronson first met the Queen Mother as a boy in South Africa when she and George VI stopped on their Empire tour at a local railway station for a meet and greet. Fast foward three decades and he is appointed official biographer to the ageing Princess Alice, who grew up in the court of Queen Victoria; through this and his later books he has at-home interviews with the Queen Mum, Princess Margaret, Charles et al.
While also a reflection on royalty and writing, the gems you'll discover along the way are hilarious descriptions of lunching on a scotch egg (and Scotch) with Margaret, bizarrely gracious teas with the Queen Mother, tales of the ageing aunts in Kensington Palace and much more.
'A jewel of a book.' Sunday Times
'Compelling and funny . . . I was riveted' Sunday Telegraph
- ISBN10 0330480529
- ISBN13 9780330480529
- Publish Date 20 July 2001
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 26 August 2011
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Imprint Pan Books
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 208
- Language English