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From: The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
Date: 20041212
Author:

Craig Brown

Philip And Elizabeth by Gyles Brandreth (Century, [pounds sterling]20 . [pounds sterling]16) was rather snootily reviewed elsewhere, largely, I suspect, by those who had made up their minds about the author and his subjects before bothering to read the book. In fact it is a joy: outrageously gossipy but still broadly sympathetic and with hundreds of first-class jokes.

Brandreth is infinitely more fascinated by Prince Philip than by the Queen, whom he appears to regard as a bit of a dull dog, but he paints a vivid portrait of a marriage of opposites which, ...

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