Mrs. Queen Takes the Train
A Novel
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When Queen Elizabeth, disguised in a skull-emblazoned hoodie, sneaks out of Buckingham Palace to escape her duties for a little while, an unlikely sextet of royal attendants team up to find their missing monarch and bring her back before her absence setsoff a national scandal.
Authors:
Kuhn, William M.
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by William Kuhn
Title:
Mrs. Queen takes the train
a novel
a novel
Publisher:
New York :, Harper,, 2012
Edition:
First edition
Characteristics:
374 p. :,ill. ;,22 cm
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Add a CommentThis fictional Queen Elizabeth closely resembles Alan Bennett’s portrayal of her in The Uncommon Reader—intelligent and well-meaning, she is a whizz at small talk and asking the right questions to draw people out, but not so good at mastering her computer or overcoming self-doubt and depression. Feeling “not quite herself,” she wanders from the palace grounds and decides to cheer herself up by visiting the Royal Yacht Britannia. Various members of her staff tag along to ensure her safe and quiet return, satisfactory relationships developing en route. Great fun! True Brit!
Read this if you're an Anglophile. The backstage bits about The Queen & her servants ring true. Was not convinced by what eventually happened to William, though.
Very amusing fiction about Queen Elizabeth II.
What a peculiar book. I didn't like it for the first 300 pages. It does not follow a linear progression, so I was often lost as to whether we were still in present day or if we'd stepped back into somebody's memory. The fact that it's fiction, yet includes real pictures from real events in Queen Elizabeth II's life was a little disorienting as well. I'm still not entirely certain of my opinion.
This book had its funny moments. The characters were creatively conceived. The portrait of the Queen, however, was so far from what I've seen that I just couldn't accept that it had that connection to reality that good satire needs. Or maybe it needed to be further off the wall and turned into a farce. Mostly it made me feel sorry for the Queen. It's a fun book, but Sue Townsend is better.
Completely charming and thoughtful examination of a few days in the life of The Queen, who in a moment of ennui, ventures out of the palace and onto the train bound for Edinburgh. The supporting cast includes an Iraq war veteran, an Indian-American cheesemonger and poet, a down on her luck elderly aristocrat, and one of The Queen's young horsewomen. If you liked Uncommon Reader (which is dryly name-checked in this book), you'll love Mrs. Queen Takes the Train.