Fictional accounts about real life events are always amusing. In Gone with the Windsors, readers are privy to the diary of Maybell, the best friend of Wally Warfield (the reason why Prince Edward abdicated the throne prior to World War II). Maybell and her diary are fiction- the drama and royal disaster that unfolds are most definitely not. I always appreciate it when a book makes me do research about its characters, and the Wally-Edward fiasco is compelling. Maybell is fantastically dense and out of touch with reality; she is disappointed when a fashionable man doesn't marry her (turns out he's gay), she calls her little sister stupid due to her inability to speak correctly (turns out she's deaf), ands he talksabout how much she enjoy's Hitler and Mussolini's company and that they are both nice men. Plus, there was a small cameo with characters from another book- It Seemed Important at the Time, by Gloria Vanderbilt- another surprise. And who doesn't like reading that the current Queen of England was a serious and precocious little girl? Without giving away too much, the book imagines a frivolous, pre-war rich life of the royal families and their hanger-ons.
3 1/2 bookworms.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
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