Rating: 
Summary: Instructional, but disappointing
Review: This is a very interesting book if you can get past the ridiculously reactionary views of the author. While it is a kick, in a way, to read an ardent royalists ravings in the 21st century it does detract from how seriously you can take her analysis. In this book the royalists are saints and everyone else are barbarians. Reading this one could well wonder why there was such hostility to the royal family since the author neglects any frame that does anything to taint the soft cushiony view of the royals. Every royal shows class and dignity while all the "extremists" (you know those people who think that democracy and freedom are good things, scoundrels!) are cynical frauds who weep facing death unlike the royals...Still once you get past the author's propaganda a fascinating tale is told. The borders for the creative are getting thinner. If modern technology were avaiblable all these delightful fake king frauds would have been dispatched rather easily and our history a bit more drab, a bit more desk table mittened.
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