I'm reading The Quest for Queen Mary by James Pope-Hennessey, which I cribbed from a British friend at Goodreads; otherwise it wouldn't have been on my radar. It's Pope-Hennessey's private notes from his interviews in the course of writing his official biography of Queen Mary; all the stuff he couldn't put in the book, very funny and dishy. There's a lot here for the rabid royalist and the rabid republican, both. (I'm in the second camp.)
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