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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A fascinating, tightly-written study,
This review is from: Behind the Palace Walls: The Rise and Fall of Britain's Royal Family (Paperback)
For some American readers like me, the tragedy of Princess Diana's death may have pointed up how little we know about the British royal family and sent us looking for sources. After starting and discarding several tendentious "histories" of the House of Windsor, I found this one to be a breath of fresh air. Peter Fearon has written an objective, concisely-written, exhaustive account of the royal family (beginning with the death of Queen Victoria), and yet has done so in a highly readable way. Unlike every other author I've seen so far, Fearon doesn't seem to have an axe to grind about the Windsors. I'm in my 40s and hadn't been exposed to much of the history here and found it fascinating. I was sorry to finish the book.
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Behind the Palace Walls: The Rise and Fall of Britain's Royal Family by Peter Fearon (Paperback - Oct. 1996)
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