tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post3717897603760139256..comments2024-03-23T12:38:46.260+00:00Comments on The History Girls: The Queen and I by Adèle GerasMary Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06241989732624913706noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-20464131857744952812018-06-12T20:21:47.889+01:002018-06-12T20:21:47.889+01:00Possibly one reason why the British Royal Family i...Possibly one reason why the British Royal Family is so fascinating, is that we only get glimpses of their lives. and have to imagine the rest. I was born two weeks after George VI died, so have only lived in the New Elizabethan Age. I wrote a Kindle Single called 'Rationing & Revelry' based on interviews with all sorts of people who witnessed the coronation in 1953, many through their first sight of a television. This is a lovely look into a child's view, thank you.Janie Hamptonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03474227107768216646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-10599758975731260292018-06-09T08:29:12.803+01:002018-06-09T08:29:12.803+01:00What fun, Adele! And quite revealing about YOU! :-...What fun, Adele! And quite revealing about YOU! :-)Caroline Lawrencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07249424644829463560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-72729055446306883972018-06-08T11:04:37.634+01:002018-06-08T11:04:37.634+01:00I really enjoyed your piece, Adele - especially in...I really enjoyed your piece, Adele - especially in these days when it seems to be fashionable to knock the Royal Family. All power to their elbows! (After all, when you think what the alternative might be...)Lynne Bentonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14412874594191347503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-70691512992374030742018-06-07T09:24:09.948+01:002018-06-07T09:24:09.948+01:00Lovely piece, Adele! Lovely piece, Adele! Sue Purkisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09084528571944803477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-15891617517674175872018-06-07T09:03:51.703+01:002018-06-07T09:03:51.703+01:00Definitely a soap opera! I actually have a copy - ...Definitely a soap opera! I actually have a copy - somewhere! - of The Little Princesses(missing dust jacket). My Dad used to bring home all sorts of odds and ends. I remember envying the princesses for having ponies when I lived in the suburbs and couldn’t, and for having a full-sized cubby house! I wished I had such pretty costumes for doing plays at home... Of course, by the time I read it, both of them were grown, with children. <br /><br />These days, everyone - now including the Yanks - is following the royal soapie. And women’s magazines are nasty. The Woman’s Day, which my mother gets weekly, has had cover photos with a beautiful and radiant Kate - and next to her an ugly and angry-faced Camilla. Inside, there is usually an article about them, never quite as awful as suggested by the cover, which hints at something unpleasant that Camilla did to Kate. Then you read the article and ... it’s something fairly innocuous. Which doesn’t stop them from suggesting that Kate is being trained up to become Queen when the throne skips a generation and her husband becomes King instead of his father. Of course, these same magazines say the same thing about the Danish Royal family, because- it sells magazines! Sue Bursztynskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09362273418897882971noreply@blogger.com