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Q: A Voyage Around the Queen
by Craig Brown
I’ve never liked the British royal family and have long believed that the world would be better off without it.
Nobody should be allowed to pretend that they are somehow better than anyone else just because their ancestors stole land from peasants.
However I was fascinated by the late queen Elizabeth who performed her archaic role for so many decades.
She was the most photographed woman in history, a 20th Century icon who also symbolised an older age.
Craig Brown’s portrait of her “A Voyage Around the Queen” is the definitive biography. Brown is not a lick-spittle “royal correspondent” he is known for his humorous writing in Private Eye. He also seems to have researched his subject exhaustively and the result is extremely funny, and also profound.
In its pages he charts the bloodlines of her corgis, and chronicles their savagery and also tells of the dreams the famous have had of the queen and the impact she had on the famous and the powerful.
It is a big read, but great fun.
Nobody should be allowed to pretend that they are somehow better than anyone else just because their ancestors stole land from peasants.
However I was fascinated by the late queen Elizabeth who performed her archaic role for so many decades.
She was the most photographed woman in history, a 20th Century icon who also symbolised an older age.
Craig Brown’s portrait of her “A Voyage Around the Queen” is the definitive biography. Brown is not a lick-spittle “royal correspondent” he is known for his humorous writing in Private Eye. He also seems to have researched his subject exhaustively and the result is extremely funny, and also profound.
In its pages he charts the bloodlines of her corgis, and chronicles their savagery and also tells of the dreams the famous have had of the queen and the impact she had on the famous and the powerful.
It is a big read, but great fun.