Gyles Brandreth's Elizabeth: An Intimate Portrait is more about him than the Queen ✒️ The trouble with writing about the Royal Family is that most of it is already known. Brandreth’s book about the Queen is readable, but not all that revelatory
December 15, 2022 5:25 pmGyles Brandreth’sIf this book had to be written, then it had to be by Brandreth, a family friend of the Queen and
This being an “intimate portrait”, most readers will enjoy that the author has impeccable access, as he recounts conversations he had with the Queen. He is admiring of his subject, even when remembering a discussion with the monarch at a drinks party in 1990, in which his small talk led her to comment that being a vegetarian, like his wife, “must be very dull”., and she always insisted on carrying her own umbrella, as otherwise the rain trickled down her neck.
Indeed, Brandreth is as much a character in this book as the Queen herself. There is a lot of “as X put it to me”, and “as X told me”. This is Brandreth’s magical mystery tour, and he is a fine guide if you like your guides fully involved.is a long book with too many bracketed passages, and not enough footnotes. One George Gage is quoted without explanation.
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