Mrs Queen Takes The Train - Softcover
After decades of service and years of watching her family's troubles splashed across the tabloids, The Queen is beginning to feel her age. She needs some proper cheering up. An unexpected opportunity offers her relief: an impromptu visit to a place that holds happy memories -- the former royal yacht, Britannia, now moored near Edinburgh. Hidden beneath a skull-emblazoned hoodie, the limber Elizabeth (thank goodness for yoga) walks out of Buckingham Palace into the freedom of a rainy London day and heads for Kings Cross to catch a train to Scotland. But a colourful cast of royal attendants has discovered she's missing. An uneasy alliance is formed: two of the Queen's most trusted household staff members, William and Shirley; one of her loyal ladies in waiting, Lady Anne; an equerry fresh from the battlefields of Afghanistan, Luke; a young equestrienne who minds the horses in the Royal Mews, Rebecca; and Rajiv, an Etonian spending his early 20s behind the counter in an artisanal cheese shop in Mayfair, and moonlighting as a tabloid photographer. Reminiscent of Alan Bennett's The Uncommon Reader, this lively, wonderfully inventive romp takes readers into the mind of the grand matriarch of the Royal Family, bringing us an endearing runaway Queen Elizabeth on the town -- and leading us behind the walls of Buckingham Palace and into the upstairs/downstairs reality behind the monarchy.
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After decades of service and years of watching her family's troubles splashed across the tabloids, Britain's Queen is beginning to feel her age. An unexpected opportunity offers her relief: an impromptu visit to a place that holds happy memories—the former royal yacht, Britannia, now moored near Edinburgh. Hidden beneath a skull-emblazoned hoodie, the limber Elizabeth (thank goodness for yoga) walks out of Buckingham Palace and heads for King's Cross to catch a train to Scotland. But a colorful cast of royal attendants has discovered her missing. In uneasy alliance a lady-in-waiting, a butler, an equerry, a girl from the stables, a dresser, and a clerk from the shop that supplies Her Majesty's cheese set out to bring her back before her absence becomes a national scandal.
Comic and poignant, fast-paced and clever, Mrs Queen Takes the Train tweaks the pomp of the monarchy, going beneath its rigid formality to reveal the human heart of the woman at its center.
William Kuhn is a biographer, historian, and the author, most recently, of Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books, an account of the editorial life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. He lives in Boston, but spent a year with his family in London when he was eleven, and became an Anglophile as a result. Mrs Queen Takes the Train is his first novel.
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- PublisherAllen & Unwin Australia
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1743312873
- ISBN 13 9781743312872
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. 384 pages. Ex-library. Cover worn.Her Majesty, Queen Elizabet h II, is growing increasingly disenchanted after her decades of p ublic service and years of family scandal. One day, the Queen tak es things into her own hands and, in a spur-of-the-moment decisio n, leaves the palace alone and incognito. An unlikely group of si x, including two of the Queen's most trusted household staff memb ers, William and Shirley; one of her loyal ladies in waiting, Lad y Anne; an equerry fresh from the battlefields of Afghanistan, Lu ke; a young equestrienne who minds the horses in the Royal Mews, Rebecca; and Rajiv, an Etonian spending his early 20s behind the counter in an artisanal cheese shop in Mayfair, and moonlighting as a tabloid photographer, are the only ones who know of her disa ppearance. They vow to find her and bring her back to the palace before MI6 turn her Scottish sojourn into a national crisis. Seller Inventory # 739j
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 372 pages. light wear, light tanningMRS QUEE N TAKES THE TRAINby William Kuhn Allen & Unwin, Australia, 2012ISBN 9781743312872t rade pb, French flaps, 372pp, VERY GOOD: light wear, light tanningHer Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, is grow ing increasingly disenchanted after her decades of public service and years of family scandal. One day, the Queen takes things int o her own hands and, in a spur-of-the-moment decision, leaves the palace alone and incognito. An unlikely group of six, including two of the Queen's most trusted household staff members, William and Shirley; one of her loyal ladies in waiting, Lady Anne; an eq uerry fresh from the battlefields of Afghanistan, Luke; a young e questrienne who minds the horses in the Royal Mews, Rebecca; and Rajiv, an Etonian spending his early 20s behind the counter in an artisanal cheese shop in Mayfair, and moonlighting as a tabloid photographer, are the only ones who know of her disappearance. Th ey vow to find her and bring her back to the palace before MI6 tu rn her Scottish sojourn into a national crisis. Capturing the fad ed but enduring glamour and glory of a seemingly old-fashioned in stitution, and a woman who wonders if she, too, has become outmod ed, this is a charming, witty and poignant novel of responsibilit ies and freedom. Seller Inventory # 1108an
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