What a Thing to Say to the Queen!: Charming anecdotes from the House of Windsor - Updated edition

ISBN-13: 9780711285996 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 184 str.

Thomas Blaikie

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What a Thing to Say to the Queen! is a collection of anecdotes celebrating the lighter side of the royal family, specially updated to mark the passing of the much-loved monarch.

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Foreword vii
No Airs and Graces
The Life of State - Not Always as Expected
With the Truly Powerful
Not Quite How We Should be Treated
Our Jewels and Clothes
Our Feminine Allure
Married Life
Royal Dining
We Are Royal After All
Staff
With the Church
Our Realms and Interests Over the Seas
Our Wild Side
What We Like and What We Don't Like
The Early Days
What is Ordinary Life Like?
Our Animal Kingdom
Royal Mother
Our Eye for Detail
Cost Cutting
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Press
Within the Family
House and Garden
Sources

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THOMAS BLAIKIE is the Manners and Etiquette Correspondent of The Lady magazine. He is the author of two previous best-selling books of Royal anecdotes, You Look Awfully Like the Queen and Corgi and Bess. He is also the author of 'Blaikie's Guide to Modern Manners'. He lives in London.