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The problem with this book is the problem I have with a lot of books set in the past. Too much factual inaccuracy. The author thanks many people at the end of the book, but I have to ask if any of them actually read the manuscript. Here's a few things I caught: the Duke of Windsor was governor of the Bahamas, not Bermuda. Princess Elizabeth was born April 21, 1926 and Princess Margaret was born August 21, 1930, so the author has wrong their age difference. They were Royal Highnesses, and it would have been improper to refer to them as "Your Highness" (without the "Royal"), and the distinction was considered important. Queen Elizabeth (George VI's consort) would not have called a titled man "your lordship." That's what servants call people with titles. A bathroom is where people go to take a bath. A toilet is where people go to relieve themselves. Princess Elizabeth would not have said she was going to the "bathroom" unless she wanted to bathe. I lived in a university city in England in the late 1980s, and everything, except the off licence, was closed on Sunday. I find it hard to believe so many shops would be open in Windsor on a Sunday afternoon when Maggie goes to meet her contact, especially during the war.

I know it's really hard to write a book, and I congratulate the author on her accomplishment. But PLEASE, in the future have a proofreader capable of finding the mistakes in the little things that drive crazy an Anglophile history buff like me.


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Princess Elizabeth Spy A Maggie Hope Mystery Susan Elia MacNeal Books Reviews

As a child, I found the biography "The Little Princesses", by Marion Crawford (Elizabeth and Margaret's Scottish governess) utterly fascinating. As this book is set in the same time frame, I was curious to see how the author would weave a mystery around the historical facts of life at Balmoral Castle during WWII, I was not disappointed. The characters are well drawn, the plot twists kept me guessing and I was especially taken with the author's portrayal of young Elizabeth (known as Lillibet by her family) who plays a significant role in the story. While the plot is pure fiction, I feel that the personalities of the young royals rang true. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that the Queen has read and enjoyed this one herself -- and perhaps wished some of her fictionalized exploits had been real!
If you enjoy English mysteries, like your heroines thoughtful yet spunky and appreciate a bit of history in the bargain, give this book a try. I liked it and plan to read more by this author.
After considerable disappointment with the first book of the series I only started the second one as I already had it. What a waste of time! I occasionally read historical fiction for a better feeling and understanding of the time. Thus, I expect key historical facts to be well researched and accurate. Here, WWII England was only chosen to bring some buzz words and characters to the shop window for an uplift of an entirely inadequate piece of fiction. I tossed it aside when one of the main characterised was "shot down in his Spit(fire) over Berlin in early 1941". Good Lord.....! I am not an aviation expert but even I have heard that the Spitfire was a short-range fighter. Wiki reports a range of 600-700km, not enough to even reach Berlin from anywhere in England! I am annoyed by such carelessness. Wish there was a way to sell kindle books. But that's me! Others may find such flat stories amusing and entertaining.
I enjoy the Maggie Hope series for their setting - WWII, mostly London, also Germany, the US, Scotland - and for the characters, who are sympathetic and interesting. The detail in Ms Macneal's stories is historically accurate & quite interesting. The stories themselves are compelling, with surprises and suspense adding to the fun. For an easy-to-read romp that doesn't make you feel like you're totally wasting your time - give these books a try!
What a pleasure it is to get reacquainted with old friends. I read of WW2 heroine Maggie Hope’s inadvertent adventuring into spydom in December of 2016 in Mr. Churchill’s Secretary and fell quite in love with both character and author. I’d discovered Susan Elia MacNeal on Twitter where her delightful posts and irresistible smile kept popping up in my feed because many of the bookworld types I follow followed her, and so, eager to sit at the table with the cool kids, I followed too. Good decision, as was the decision to start following her Maggie stories. I was captivated by the first installment and quickly availed myself of this second exploit of Maggie’s. It was just as enchanting and exciting as the first, with which it shares well-drawn and memorable characters, surprising and rapid-heartbeat plotting, and the author’s deft and witty facility for language, as well as a seemingly effortless ability to evoke the time period and supply historical context in a hugely entertaining manner. In addition to all that, there are many friendships, love interests, and family dynamics played out in ways that feel entirely human and contemporary; in short, you’ll be enlightened and moved by the stories and who can resist a re-imagining of pre-coronation Elizabeth and her mischievous sibling, Margaret, as children at Windsor Castle where Maggie is sent — much to her disappointment having wanted to head to the front for dangerous undercovering —to pose as a tutor and protect the princesses from a Nazi plant embedded somewhere in the castle. Ripping good page turner here. I’ve already gotten number three lined up, saved, I don’t want to lose Maggie as a pal and there are but seven novels — the last of which is not yet published.
The problem with this book is the problem I have with a lot of books set in the past. Too much factual inaccuracy. The author thanks many people at the end of the book, but I have to ask if any of them actually read the manuscript. Here's a few things I caught the Duke of Windsor was governor of the Bahamas, not Bermuda. Princess Elizabeth was born April 21, 1926 and Princess Margaret was born August 21, 1930, so the author has wrong their age difference. They were Royal Highnesses, and it would have been improper to refer to them as "Your Highness" (without the "Royal"), and the distinction was considered important. Queen Elizabeth (George VI's consort) would not have called a titled man "your lordship." That's what servants call people with titles. A bathroom is where people go to take a bath. A toilet is where people go to relieve themselves. Princess Elizabeth would not have said she was going to the "bathroom" unless she wanted to bathe. I lived in a university city in England in the late 1980s, and everything, except the off licence, was closed on Sunday. I find it hard to believe so many shops would be open in Windsor on a Sunday afternoon when Maggie goes to meet her contact, especially during the war.

I know it's really hard to write a book, and I congratulate the author on her accomplishment. But PLEASE, in the future have a proofreader capable of finding the mistakes in the little things that drive crazy an Anglophile history buff like me.