- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Sidgwick & Jackson; 2nd Revised edition edition (20 July 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0330480529
- ISBN-13: 978-0330480529
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 13 x 1.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,469,809 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Theo Aronson's extraordinary account of a life spent with the Royal family.
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A touching and funny memoir of how one man's life became interwoven with the Royal family, seeing them with their guard down as we never do. Theo Aronson first met the Queen Mother as a boy in South Africa when she and George VI stopped on their Empire tour at a local railway station for a meet and greet. Fast foward three decades and he is appointed official biographer to the ageing Princess Alice, who grew up in the court of Queen Victoria; through this and his later books he has at-home interviews with the Queen Mum, Princess Margaret, Charles et al. While also a reflection on royalty and writing, the gems you'll discover along the way are hilarious descriptions of lunching on a scotch egg (and Scotch) with Margaret, bizarrely gracious teas with the Queen Mother, tales of the ageing aunts in Kensington Palace and much more. 'A jewel of a book.' Sunday Times 'Compelling and funny . . . I was riveted' Sunday Telegraph
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"A Jewel of a Book" says the Sunday Times of London...
24 Aug 2001
Based on the annotated information in the journals he's kept for years, Theo Aronsono has written a light and interesting book on the English Royals. As he's interviewed many of them for his other books, this is a chronoligical walk through his memories (from 1979 to the present). It's fascinating. I ordered this book after I heard an interview with him on the radio. It arrived yesterday, and I read it in its entirety last night. If you're interested in the Windsors, this is a slice of life from a man who doesn't pull any punches. And yet he still remains a gentleman. I really enjoyed it.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
An Affectionate But Realistic View
15 Oct 2001
Theo Aronson is a well known biographer of European royalty past and present. Royal Subjects is a description in diary form of twenty years or so of contacts with British Royals both well known (The Queen Mother, Prince Charles) and almost unknown (Colonel Sir Henry and the Lady May Abel Smith). Aronson clearly enjoyed meeting these people and likes most of them quite a bit, but he is not blind to their character flaws and is on the whole refreshingly unidolatrous. (Not to say he isn't loyal, as he obviously has little truck with republican sentiment)
Royal Subjects will appeal to you even if you are not a royal aficionado because Aronson very humorously describes the day to day sillinesses he puts up, from inane phone calls and letters to being interviewed by people who have obviously not read his books. Most appealingly of all, Aronson never takes himself or his subjects too seriously, even when he has to deal with prostate cancer. He has had a full life which he has enjoyed immensely, and you will enjoy this glimpse of part of it, too.
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Royal Subject is "Revenge"
27 Dec 2001
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After hearing Theo Aronson talk about the pending publication of his latest book on a radio show, I hastened to order it. It sounded like it would be a lively insider's account of less-known incidents and anecdotes about the British Royal Family. Instead it turned out to be a thinly-disguised autobiography of Mr. Aronson with very few interesting stories and some very hissy jabs at the Windsor family. Perhaps his other biographies may be more interesting, but this one was very disappointing.
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