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Summary: Rehashed, old material. Not much new here
Review: Kitty Kelly has taken much of her information directly from "Queen Elizabeth" A Portrait of the Queen Mother, by Penelope Mortimer.
She has also included much material from other publications that are too numerous to name!
This is too bad, as I would really enjoy reading a in depth book on the House of Windsor
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Summary: Crap--but compulsive
Review: Kelley's book is unadulterated crap, trash journalism of the lowest rank. She condemns Charles for being too aloof, Sarah for being too forward, the Queen Mother as ice in velvet, the Queen as velvet in ice. No movement of the House of Windsor, whatever it is, escapes her poison pen. Does no one please this truly disagreeable author? Still, I have to admit . . . I couldn't put the book down.
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Summary: Forget this piece of worthless trash
Review: One of the more sensationalist inaccurate inflammatory and very likely libelous pieces of garbage it has ever been my misfortune to read.
I *had* to read it, to give a decent review of it, (as part of my job) but for you whose pay cheque doesn't depend on it...
Avoid like the plague.
If you like works of pure fiction (which this certainly is) you'd be better off sticking with the National Enquirer or Weekly World News. They are more credible. And at least they tell you which planet Elvis is living on this week...
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Summary: There is nothing new, interesting or important in this book.
Review: I just finished reading The Royals by Kitty Kelley. In view of the on-going media hype surrounding it, I am alarmed by how poorly written and researched this book was. I was led to believe that Kitty Kelley was a journalist who was writing a "history" of the House of Windsor. But this book is a waste of money and any time spent reading it would be wasted. Even if you are only interested in gossip, rumor and innuendo, there is nothing new here. Everything she has written was printed elsewhere. And to top it off, the publisher should be scolded for not proof-reading the text --- apparently if Kitty Kelley likes a particular sentence she'll use it over and over again throughout the book. Don't make the mistake I made by buying this book
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Summary: Seems like I read this somewhere before !!!!!
Review: For the hipe surrounding this book, I found that it did not live up to all the fuss. I have read almost all the books about Diana, Princess of Wales, and there was nothing new in this one. Most of the "insider accounts" were stories I had read before. If it 's release didn't coincide with Diana's death I do not think that so much attention would have been paid to it. Nothing against Ms. Kelley, who is a fine author, but I was disappointed to have purchased the book
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Summary: Absolute garbage
Review: trite, vapid, worthy of the pen of a poorly educated 14 year old. A waste of time spent in reading it
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Summary: Don't be too harsh,good drivel is relaxing and humorous!
Review: While one should grieve Lady Diana's death, her death is no more catastrophic than that of the thousands of people whose vibrant lives are abruptly cut short in road accidents every year. While one should sympathize with her sons and her family, nobility and royalty do not make the loss of a loved one any greater than that felt by any other family who experience similar tragedy. And to those who would lead us to believe that the Royal Family have suffered enough, I say that they have been the primary source of their own problems and were, in many cases, those of Diana, Princess of Wales. As for stricter libel laws, I beg to differ; for the tabloid press would not be quite so prolific in the UK were libel laws so much tougher than American ones. Finally, Ms. Kelly is quite far from Jane Austen in style and finesse (as are most American writers), yet to scream "bloody boycott" out of respect for people whom one will never meet, and who, I might add, do not give the slightest "hoot" about any American commoner, is just as "bombastically ludicrous" as Ms Kelly's style. A more valid reason for not reading her book would be that she lacks style or that it is just plain drivel. I, for one, intend - despite Ms Kelly's simple, puerile, very Amercian "tabloidesque" style and despite the undignified nature of the book - to keep a copy on hand in my WC for myself and for all those who may come calling. Good drivel can be relaxing and most humorous
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Summary: The Royals is much ado of nothing new
Review: As a royals expert who has read dozens of books on the House of Windsor, I find Kitty Kelley's latest tome much ado of nothing new.
First, she is mostly sympathetic toward Diana in the book. Ms. Kelley has stated a number of times that the release of "The Royals" was at a bad time in light of the death of Diana.
What I find most annoying about the book is that the so-called revelations that Ms. Kelley makes are old news. They have been written about (and with greater expertise) in other books. For instance, it is common knowledge that the Earl of Strathmore submitted the paperwork late on the birth of his daugher, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. How Ms. Kelley deduced from this piece of information that the Queen Mother was illegimate is a mystery.
She fails to mention that the Earl and Lady Strathmore had one more child 2 years later. Also, Lady Elizbeth had a striking resemblance to her older sister, Mary.
How on earth does Ms. Kelley decide that Princess Margaret is anti-semetic because she supposidly walked out of the movie, "Schlindler's List"? Where did she get this information? A lot of the tidbits of so-called information on the royals is just plain uninteresting and mean-spirited. I recommend this book to royal watchers just to count up the number of errors and a priori facts that abound in this rather dreary so-called literary creation. If readers are interested in well-researched and entertaining books about the Royals, consider
Lady Elizabeth Longford's book on the House of Windsor or any of the excellent royal biographies by Robert Lacey, Stanley Weintraub or Theo Aronson.
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Summary: A real page turner
Review: Ms. Kelly does what she does best; tells the stories that other journalists are afraid to tell. Ms. Kelly shows the Royal family as they are, warts and all. Please don't think that this is a 100% negative book. It is not. I was very impressed with the balance that Ms. Kelly used in her reporting and writing. I recommend this to anyone interested in learning about our mother country
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Summary: A mere rehash of tidbits from other books
Review: So who cares if the Queen Mum had A.I. seventy-some years ago? And, mind you, this is the most exciting thing Kelley has managed to dig up on the House of Windsor. And one should emphasize dug up--because the whole book smells like an old bone, well-gnawed upon and not very appetizing. Save your money! Don't buy. In fact, boycott as if just a tabloid paper between hard-covers
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