Helpful Score: 2
imagine you are in line for the throne, 34th in line,but you can't work because it would look bad,so you clean houses for people that might know you, because you have no money,your royal relatives expect you to help them with little problems-like keeping the prince of wales away from a married american woman,play hostess to a bavarian princess,with a mouth right out of hollywood gangster movies,the one the royal relatives want to lure the prince away from the american and oh yes bodies keep showing up around you. the police notice, and the fact that you are royal dosen't seem to help.
a brother, the duke is called binky, his wife is called fig.
your mother is on husband #?-you have lost count.her father your grandfather was a london bobby and does try to help. it's nice to have normal relatives you can relax around.
a fun book it would help to read the first one then this one but not necessary.
a brother, the duke is called binky, his wife is called fig.
your mother is on husband #?-you have lost count.her father your grandfather was a london bobby and does try to help. it's nice to have normal relatives you can relax around.
a fun book it would help to read the first one then this one but not necessary.
Helpful Score: 1
I love the wit and wisdom in this series. Amidst all the laugh-inducing lines and scenes, Bowen gives her readers a real sense of England in the 1930s. I'm not just talking about the Queen trying to steer her son away from the horrifyingly unsuitable American divorcée either. The cars, the clothes, the attitudes, the lingering effects of World War I, Communism, the rise of the Nazi Party... it's all here, wrapped up in a romp of a book (and series) that Bowen has to love writing.
Readers also get a glimpse into the life of the royals from meals to telephones to acquiring antiques. Georgie is such a fun main character. She's been brought up, not to be useful, but to be "thirty-fourth in line to the throne." Nevertheless she's twenty-two and wants her independence from the drafty ancestral castle in Scotland, so she's learning how to cope in London on very little money. She may have been raised to be ornamental, but she's got a good head on her shoulders and thinks on her feet-- which is a good thing because between her own proclivities and those of the Queen, she finds herself in some amazing situations.
Georgie's not the only character who shines. Her glamorous actress mother who left that castle years ago for a procession of handsome and wealthy men slinks through her scenes oozing sex appeal and style. Her retired policeman grandfather is a treat as is his next-door neighbor Mrs. Hetty Huggins, a woman who never met an H she couldn't drop. And then there's that incredibly handsome (and penniless) Darcy O'Mara who makes Georgie's heart flutter and always seems to be around when he's needed most. Although I don't care much for romance in my mysteries, I have to admit that I like keeping an eye on this relationship.
If you're in the mood to have fun, Rhys Bowen's Her Royal Spyness series is the one for you!
Readers also get a glimpse into the life of the royals from meals to telephones to acquiring antiques. Georgie is such a fun main character. She's been brought up, not to be useful, but to be "thirty-fourth in line to the throne." Nevertheless she's twenty-two and wants her independence from the drafty ancestral castle in Scotland, so she's learning how to cope in London on very little money. She may have been raised to be ornamental, but she's got a good head on her shoulders and thinks on her feet-- which is a good thing because between her own proclivities and those of the Queen, she finds herself in some amazing situations.
Georgie's not the only character who shines. Her glamorous actress mother who left that castle years ago for a procession of handsome and wealthy men slinks through her scenes oozing sex appeal and style. Her retired policeman grandfather is a treat as is his next-door neighbor Mrs. Hetty Huggins, a woman who never met an H she couldn't drop. And then there's that incredibly handsome (and penniless) Darcy O'Mara who makes Georgie's heart flutter and always seems to be around when he's needed most. Although I don't care much for romance in my mysteries, I have to admit that I like keeping an eye on this relationship.
If you're in the mood to have fun, Rhys Bowen's Her Royal Spyness series is the one for you!
