Royal Subjects
A Biographer's Encounters

By Theo Aronson
December 2000
Sidgwick & Jackson / Macmillan UK
ISBN: 0283072768
212, Illustrated
$24.95 hardcover

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This is actually a collection of the author's notes made while interviewing a range of British royalty over the past twenty years. It is a sparkling and often irreverent memoir on the changing nature of royalty and its characters and of writing about them. Ranging from the disastrous to the successful and amusing to the touching, the encounters within the author's book include hilarious descriptions of lunching on a scotch egg with Process Margaret, revealing conversations with the Queen Mother, and bizarrely gracious meals with the ageing princesses in Kensington Palace. The New Yorker says, "He writes with an eloquence and smiling simplicity."

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