At Home with the Queen: Life Through the Keyhole of the Royal Household Brian Hoey (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
18 Aug 2003
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 320pp h178mm x w111mm x s23mm 200g 16 col plates (16pp) ISBN13: 9780007126194 ISBN13: 978-0-00-712619-4 ISBN10: 0007126190 EAN: 9780007126194 x Description: Behind the scenes of the private world at the heart of royalty, as revealed by a distinguished royal commentator. This is the real story of what goes on inside the royal palaces, as witnessed by members of the royal staff and household past and present. Buckingham Palace is effectively an independent kingdom with its own rules and customs, now explained by Brian Hoey. Hundreds of anecdotes reveal the conditions in which the staff live and work and also their relationship with the Royals they serve. How does one get a job as personal footman to the Queen? Why does Prince Charles still have to send a note to her Page of the Backstairs requesting a meeting with his mother? How much do members of the household earn? Why does the Queen hate men in three-piece suits? Why are the Queen's bedsheets six inches longer than Prince Philip's? Why do her maids have to vacuum walking backwards? Why doesn't the Queen allow square ice-cubes to be put in her drinks? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Elizabeth, the Queen Alison Weir (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
01 Jan 2009 (03 Dec 2020)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 544pp h198mm x w129mm x s34mm 396g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780099524250 ISBN13: 978-0-09-952425-0 ISBN10: 0099524252 EAN: 9780099524250 x Description: Elizabeth the Queen begins as the young Elizabeth ascends the throne in the wake of her sister Mary's disastrous reign - both a woman and a queen, Elizabeth's story is an extraordinary phenomenon in a patriarchal age.From Elizabeth's intriguing, long-standing affair with Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, to her dealings - sometimes comical, sometimes poignant - with her many suitors, her rivalry with Mary, Queen of Scots, and her bizarre relationship with the Earl of Essex, thirty years her junior, here, in rich, vivid and colourful detail, Alison Weir helps us comes as close as we shall ever get to knowing what Elizabeth I was like as a person.'Excellent...intricate and absorbing...An elegant, shrewd and wonderfully vivacious book.' The Times _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________