Royal Style & Gossip book group

[CurlyWurlyTwirly]

This has been started for posters on the Royal Style & Gossip threads, so that we have one place for all the biography recommendations.
Am going to kick off with the list compiled by @senecafalls

Please feel free to add any recommendations

Alice the Enigma, Queen Victoria’s Daughter by Christina Croft

Queen Victoria’s Mysterious Daughter: A Biography of Princess Louise by Lucinda Hawksley

Princess Louise, Queen Victoria’s Unconventional Daughter by JehanneWake

George and Marina, Duke and Duchess of Kent by Christopher Warwick

The Queen Mother, the Official Biography by William Shawcross

The Romanov Sisters by Helen Rappaport

Alice, Princess Andrew of Greece by Hugo Vickers

George V’s Children by John Van der Kiste

Serving Victoria: Life in the Royal Household by Kate Hubbard

Victoria’s Daughters by Jerrold Packard

The Last Princess: The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria’s Youngest Daughter by Matthew Dennison

Childhood at Court 1818-1914 by John van der Kiste

Queen Victoria’s Granddaughters by Christina Croft

Grandmama of Europe: The Crowned Descendants of Queen Victoria by Theo Aronson

Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone by Theo Aronson

Prince Leopold: the Untold Story of Queen Victoria’s Youngest Son by Charlotte Zeepvat

Ooooo helllooo there !

Are we sticking to just royal books or books were members of the RF feature as side characters ?

Was Margaret Rhodes a cousin on the QM's side?

I read The Last Curtsey. That should definitely be added to the list.

That sounds like a great book, I saw Margaret Rhodes interviewed once, she was fascinating. What a tragedy about the Crawfie book! I've always wanted to read that one.

Thank you Curly

I currently have 3 books I’m reading

1. My book club
2. Call the midwife (just got into tv series)
3. This relevant to the thread www.amazon.co.uk/Ungrateful-Daughters-Maureen-Waller/dp/0312307128?tag=mumsnetforum-21

It’s very interesting- Queen Mary & Anne

@whithershalliwander
The book about the Stuarts looks interesting.
I only really know about the RF during the From the Victorian era onwards; so this book group, recommendations and discussions will be quite an education.

Am an avid lurker on the S and B thread and read the Princess Margaret book over Christmas as it was recommended there. Have downloaded the Princess Alice book but just had to delurk to tell you that I have just found the Shawcross biography in hardback in a charity shop for £1.50. It's something of a brick but such a bargain I couldn't resist.

By what date should we have read the Princess Alice book for discussion? Or is it just adding our comments as we finish?

Anyone else getting lots of 'Royal' based book recommendations from Amazon now ?

Ooh sounds like fun.

I've managed to order quite a few of these books from the Library. Princess Athlone is 99p on Kindle.

A recommendation from @bettythebutterfly on the RoyalS&G thread about the ladies who made the then Princess Elizabeth ‘s wedding dress The Gown I’ve just downloaded it as it was 99p on kindle.

Right I've found you & thanks for starting our royal book club @CurlyWurlyTwirly
Well I've just reached Chapter 4 on Princess Alice & so far so good.
Prince Leopold would have been an amazing King but not to be as he was the youngest brother.
Princess Helen sounds lovely.
Little Princess Alice & the gloves