Jolly good yarn for royal watchers and cynics alike
This is the second book in the series and I have a feeling that they might be growing on me. The author is a self-confessed royal watcher and clearly a big admirer of the Queen. As I am neither I have to admit to a certain ambivalence. However I cannot deny that this was an amusing read.It certainly was a fascinating, and I presume reasonably accurate look behind the scenes at how the Royal Household functions. ( Minus the murders of course - unless they really have hushed that up!!)
Her Maj enlists her assistant personal secretary, Rozie to help her solve crimes…which we are led to believe she has been secretly doing for many years, being somewhat more astute than her staff seem to give her credit for. The book starts off with a woman lying dead by the Buckingham Palace swimming pool…who knew it had one It then rewinds 3 months to the Queen insisting that she has identified one of ‘her ‘ paintings in a MOD exhibition and she wants to know how it got there and when she is getting it back! The investigation leads to murder and mayhem. I got slightly muddled at one point as to who had done what and when but perhaps that was just me. I did think that the explanation for how the Queen was so sure that it was her picture and not a copy was quite inventive and amusing - and indeed believable. I passed an enjoyable few hours with this book
Her Maj enlists her assistant personal secretary, Rozie to help her solve crimes…which we are led to believe she has been secretly doing for many years, being somewhat more astute than her staff seem to give her credit for. The book starts off with a woman lying dead by the Buckingham Palace swimming pool…who knew it had one It then rewinds 3 months to the Queen insisting that she has identified one of ‘her ‘ paintings in a MOD exhibition and she wants to know how it got there and when she is getting it back! The investigation leads to murder and mayhem. I got slightly muddled at one point as to who had done what and when but perhaps that was just me. I did think that the explanation for how the Queen was so sure that it was her picture and not a copy was quite inventive and amusing - and indeed believable. I passed an enjoyable few hours with this book