The Woman Who Went To Bed For A Year

As part of my coverage of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee I reviewed Sue Townsend’s The Queen and I. I wasn’t entirely sold on it, it was fine but not brilliant. I was a huge fan of Adrian Mole when I was younger though so when my mum passed me her copy of The Woman who Went to Bed for a Year…

The Queen and I

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Diamond Jubilee

Hard as it is to imagine this week, but there’s a number of people in Britain who don’t like the Monarchy. They would rather see Britain as a republic than have the Queen as our head of state. I personally think they are batty, but I suppose they are entitled to their opinions…