What are you reading in 2025?

[Tradd]

Bobby, I am somewhat into the current British royal family and their woes. The formerly-known-as-Prince Andrew debacle is quite bad for them.

You only know about Queen Elizabeth's two children, the King and Andrew, because they are the ones making the news.

The Princess Royal, Anne, is a very hard working woman who completes 500 engagements a year. She is the daughter of Queen Elizabeth. She is the one the British citizens have the most quiet respect for, after the Queen. Anne pretty much stays out of the tabloids; her own children have refused the royal titles they are entitled to, Prince and Princess.

The Queen's youngest son, Edward, is solidly married with children and has never ruffled feathers of society. He and his wife also quietly do the work of royals which is representing the crown by making many public appearances opening hospitals, leading charities, that sort of thing.

There are a bazillion books about them so I don't know of just one to recommend. I am currently reading the newly released biography of Andrew and his former wife Sarah Ferguson called Entitled: the rise and fall of the House of York by Andrew Lownie.

but here is a list of books to consider

.https://www.townandcountrymag.com/le...hoCbhEQAvD_BwE

I have a free trial of Kindle Unlimited and I read the Entitled book, or parts of it, anyway. I always knew Randy Andy was weird, but the stuffed animal thing?

[iris lilies]

I have a free trial of Kindle Unlimited and I read the Entitled book, or parts of it, anyway. I always knew Randy Andy was weird, but the stuffed animal thing?

Right, the teddy bear stuff is ridiculous.* i had heard about it years ago. One of his security officers, now retired, spilled the beans on several of Andy’s stupider habits. Mainly that guy was furious that Andy kept subverting security measures and putting everyone in the palace grounds at risk because he would insist on letting unknown people through Palace gates.

*Teddy Bears: Andrew has 50 teddy bears on his bed that MUST be placed in specific positions each morning when the housemaids make his bed. There is a chart that shows where each bear goes on the bed.

[rosarugosa]

The teddy bear thing is weirder than weird! And to think that DH is sometimes annoyed by my decorative pillows - of which I have very few, I might add!

[iris lilies]

I have a free trial of Kindle Unlimited and I read the Entitled book, or parts of it, anyway. I always knew Randy Andy was weird, but the stuffed animal thing?

the British people are as a whole, not sympathetic as to what happens to Andrew and his former wife, Sarah Ferguson.But they ARE extremely concerned about what happens to the corgis, the queen’s two corgi dogs.

the story put out on media is that Queen Elizabeth did not want more corgis after her last one died because she knew she was elderly and wouldn’t live a long time, and she would not outlive any puppies. But Sarah and Andrew got her two corgis anyway with a promise they would take the dogs when the queen expired. it has been cattily suggested that Andrew and Sarah made this move just to stay close to the queen.

When it was announced Andrew would be leaving Royal Lodge and moving to Adelaide cottage which is still on the grounds of Windsor Great Park, the Palace said tersely that the dogs would remain with family members. But now that Andrew has been banished out of London into the countryside I’ve not heard about the fate of the dogs. Sarah isn’t going with him so who gets the dogs?

I know the dogs will be fine because the British people will see to it that they are.

[Tradd]

the British people are as a whole, not sympathetic as to what happens to Andrew and his former wife, Sarah Ferguson.But they ARE extremely concerned about what happens to the corgis, the queen’s two corgi dogs.

the story put out on media is that Queen Elizabeth did not want more corgis after her last one died because she knew she was elderly and wouldn’t live a long time, and she would not outlive any puppies. But Sarah and Andrew got her two corgis anyway with a promise they would take the dogs when the queen expired. it has been cattily suggested that Andrew and Sarah made this move just to stay close to the queen.

When it was announced Andrew would be leaving Royal Lodge and moving to Adelaide cottage which is still on the grounds of Windsor Great Park, the Palace said tersely that the dogs would remain with family members. But now that Andrew has been banished out of London into the countryside I’ve not heard about the fate of the dogs. Sarah isn’t going with him so who gets the dogs?

I know the dogs will be fine because the British people will see to it that they are.

Corgis are actually my favorite breed. I was happy to hear family members will be keeping the dogs.

[littlebittybobby]

okay----here's a book i am NOT reading at the moment, but maybe one o' you kids could skim through it and let me know if it's any good.(see photo). But yeah---I'd hope they have detailed chapters on the destruction of not only Mary, but Rosemary, and Mary Jo and Marilyn and Martha and the Bessette sisters plus too many others to list here. Yup.

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[hana]

Just finished Madame Fourcade's Secret War by Lynne Olson. Fourcade was a young mother of two and estranged from her husband when France was invaded by Germany. She created what became France's largest and most successful spy network, The Alliance, and like many women spies and resistance members fell into obscurity after the war. She was Germany's most wanted woman and had a huge bounty on her head. With everyone questioning her along the way because she's a woman.

Olson interview one of Fourcade's children and other primary sources in addition to researching the MI6 archives.

Granted Fourcade through her estranged husband had connections to several French generals and her sister was friends with Yvonne de Gaulle. So setting up a spy network was easier for her.

Great reading about how ordinary people served their country while under foreign occupation. Was a bit confusing at time when Olson uses MI6 agent's real names instead of their cover names at times, and MI6 gave resistance fighters a three letter and two digit code name and Fourcade gave her agents animal names.

Olson writes about ordinary people who did extraordinary things when their country, neighbors, or anyone needed them.

[iris lilies]

okay----here's a book i am NOT reading at the moment, but maybe one o' you kids could skim through it and let me know if it's any good.(see photo). But yeah---I'd hope they have detailed chapters on the destruction of not only Mary, but Rosemary, and Mary Jo and Marilyn and Martha and the Bessette sisters plus too many others to list here. Yup.

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I read that hit piece book by Maureen Callahan because I enjoy dirt on the Kennedy family, they just annoy me and always have but I don’t recall the specifics of Mary Kennedy‘s problems other than she married into that family