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Summary: The Royals confirmed my beliefs:
Review: they are amoral, undereducated, ignorant, inbred buffons. It doesn't matter if this book is good or bad (it is so bad it's good), accurate or inaccurate (inaccurate). The fact that the royal family has enough clout to stop the sale of a blockbuster best seller in a supposedly free society is inpressive. The stories in this book are so outrageous & funny they can't be true. Where did Ms Kelley get this stuff? Anyway the Royals felt threatened enough to stop it's sale in the UK. Reason enough I'd say to read it.
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Summary: Utterly Hilarious!
Review: I adore this book. I love that much of its contents has been so obviously made-up. I particularly love that Kelley invents conversations between people (eg. the Queen (age 6) discussing affairs of state with an even more juvenile Princess Margaret - I mean, give me a break!). I love the little anecdotes that just make you smile (the Queen Mum being inseminated by a turkey baster is my personal favourite). Does this give you a taster for the most celebrated piece of Faction of the 1990s? I read this during my lunch-break when my day gets a little too boring and I need to day-dream... catch my drift?
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Summary: Read this is as if were a tabloid
Review: This book is entertaining for those who enjoy gossip without taking it as fact. Much is not solidly substantiated, but is interwoven with just enough clear fact to make it overly believable. The string of anonymous sources is a caveat to those who would take this for history or biography rather than the equivalent of tabloid headlines. Kitty Kelley makes various references which make it clear that she rather glories in the "American" approach of having no respect for royalty or for privacy. The implication is that she was able to uncover stories which those having such respect would not reveal, or that refusal to discuss a matter means the story is known to be accurate. Though a "fun read" if taken as the equivalent of a gossip column, there is little here that would be useful to anyone genuinely interested in either the "cast of characters" or in history. If one knows anything much about the royal family, this book appears to be intended solely to discredit their characters - both in the uncorroborated stories it includes and the many noble facts it omits.
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Summary: Just read it with a grain of salt...
Review: The lives of the Queen Mother, Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Margaret, Princes Phillip and Charles, Princess Diana, Prince Andrew and Princess Sarah - spares no one in unveiling sexual ambiguities, alcoholism, gambling and womanizing. I bought it for the pictures!
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Summary: Censure
Review: I am British and therefore have not read Ms Kelley's much talked of book. I cannot understand why we are not allowed to read it, but we ARE allowed to read the new book about Princess Diana, they haven't stopped that have they? I wonder why? Censuring us is only going to decrease public support and frankly the Royals need that more than ever. However, with Phillip in tow I suppose the Queen has enough on her plate trying to keep him from embarassing the monarchy. To any Americans who CAN read the offending book may I say enjoy it, if nothing else I hope it will entertain, accurate or not. And one final thought. Please don't believe everything you read especially about the royal family, and if you do please don't think they are a representation of us. We are much more interesting.
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Summary: Royal-state censorship/oppression
Review: I can't review this book because in the UK I cannot buy it. I don't know what's supposed to be so special about it to merit such treatment. No doubt it contains it's share of errors. I just want to appeal to Americans in particular to please stop complimenting us British on our monarchy. The monarchy is not cute and it's not quaint. It is archaic, oppressive and suppressive of our development as a modern democratic nation. You are proud of your republic and would never tolerate a monarchy in your own country, nor would you tolerate the suppression of books which are critical of your President. Many of us here in the UK wish to have a modern republican form of government, as other countries in Europe already have. We need it desperately. Please give us your support. Thank you.
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Summary: Why are the British people not allowed to read this book?
Review: I tried to purchase this book through Amazon, but I was told that it could not be shipped to UK addresses. This is apparently due to an official ban imposed by the British Government. By chance, I then found a copy when browsing in a local 'bargain' bookshop; the book cannot be obtained from large bookstore chains in the UK such as Waterstones etc. I found it to be reasonably well researched, and far more intelligently written than articles one might read about 'the royals' in the British tabloids. Ms Kelley rightly indicates throughout her book the huge amounts of money that the various post- war debacles of the Mountbatten- Windsor family have cost the British people. How ironic, then, that we are the only people in the world who are officially not allowed to read this book! What do the international community think about this? Opinions please!
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: This book was very hard for me to put down... I didn't find that there was any "trashing" of the Royal family... just the facts. I was particularly interested in the life of Queen Elizabeth prior to becoming Queen. I also enjoyed reading about the Queen Mother. I think this book made the Royal Family look like any other family- without perfection.
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Summary: Waste of Time and Money
Review: It was not the cutting edge journalism that I was expecting.
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Summary: Great Book Into the Royal family
Review: I got this book about a year and a half ago as a gift and then I could not put it down. today I am still looking back at this book. Great infomation and it was well worth the money. Kitty Kelly did a really great job on this book and I have since bought 3 of her other bio's that she has written. Thank You
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