Wednesday, July 20, 2016

A Game of Crowns: Elizabeth, Camilla, Kate and the Throne

Author: Christopher Anderson
Stars: 1
Review by: Mandy Apgar


Absolute filth and insulting to the intelligence. It is pretty much an oversized tabloid wringing out bad rumors and either misquoting or selectively editing particular phrases directed towards the lives of the 3 key women in the Windsors now. Of course, most of this relates to the late Diana - that William and Harry were forced to walk behind her coffin (they volunteered), that no mention of her was made at a church service at the Queen's instructions (they wished it so to not bring up bad memories and bring their grief upon others), and time and time again events are either flat out invented or key happenings, etc. are conveniently ignored to help bash whomever it is he has set as the villain at the time. Sad thing is, this total idiot of an author is popular because people believe such drivel. I cannot but think of a Penny Junor biography of Prince Harry (which he more or less did with her) I just read where vast amounts of the entire book are devoted to telling again and again how and why a lot of the stories in here either never happened or are exaggerated. Some things are minor but as another example: granted the televised post engagement interview with William and Kate was so wildly popular, and the clip where she laughingly refuted that his picture was on her wall (it was a jeans model she admired instead) so well circulated, why does he insist time and again that she had this mythical poster up as a way to inspire her to be a queen? Not only is it sexist and demeaning to insist that, especially granted the wealth of evidence opposite, when the author lies about a silly trivial thing like that shouldn't you wonder what else he has made up?
 

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