At Home with the Queen: Life Through the Keyhole of the Royal Household

i really enjoyed this book.....but there again....i am a great royalist and love reading all the biographies and anything i can find in magazines and newspapers. the queen does a marvelous job and i am a great admirer of all that she stands for. what other OAPs work as hard as the queen and prince phillip at their ages? absolutely incredible.this book is well written, informative and interesting. yes....i highly recommend it.

It’s a book that’s dated, but a true eye opener to how this family by accident of birth truly live.The lifestyle is almost stomach churning. The money that they spend on themselves (not the servants that go into the hundreds receive). The main objective being “PRIVALGIGED” to work for this bunch of highly spoilt and truly demanding family.No wonder all staff have to sign the Official Secret Act”. For most of us living in a 2 up 2 down would find 600 rooms in Buck House let alone all the other resistances appalling.It’s more the fact that these people can’t even dress themselves or run a bath that amazes me. In fact even a fountain pen has to be placed in a personal box with special paper etc.....it just goes on. More privaliige, Corgis eating fillet steak 🥩.... Buy this if you want a sycophantic but quite entertaining read of how these people REALLY LIVE

Another lovely books added to collection.Great authors , seeking more wonderful books.

She adored this book.

I like it alot

A good book. A text that does not deal with affairs, but describes useful facts. The photographs are authentic. I found out a lot about the Queen's staff(not servants nowadays) and the countries she visited. The style was excellent.

This was bought as a gift for my Mum.However I do know that she found it very interesting and enjoyable reading.

this book gives you a new and amaz ing insight to royal life would reccomend if you like our Royal family

Very interesting book.

Tutto bene

I found this book very interesting. I was not happy when I finished the book. I wanted more!!!

Le livre est -pour moi- plutôt ennuyeux avec l'énumération des serviteurs, mais il y a une bonne dose d'humour si on analyse la façon dont est présentée la famille royale dans les revues people ou non.En résumé un bon décryptage.

That's such a ridiculous title, isn't it? One can't (or I can't imagine anyway) Her Majesty having a best friend, unless Princess Margaret or Prince Philip can be counted. She's just not that sort of person; and THAT'S the intriguing thing: what kind of person lives without friends? HOW does someone live a life that is so separate, so different from everyone else's? Oh, I know she has "friends", people she's known all her life and invites to Sandringham & Windsor & Balmoral for weekends, etc., etc. But there's no one who's really really close to her, no one she can confide in or just ring up for a bit of gossip. She's just not like that. So what is she really like? The more one reads about her, the more one feels one is slowly forming a picture of her. There's also the corollary to this idea that we can never know what she's really like - the fact that she doesn't seem to want anyone to really know her. Or doesn't even think in that way. It's all very strange. I think that, far from being one of the most boring people in the world, as so many people seem to believe, Elizabeth II is one of the most fascinating people living today.