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6 Books to Buy If You Loooveee The Royal Family

Since right now is a popular time to buy gifts, why not treat yourself to a good non fiction book about royals? Here are 6 books that I have read and recommend you should get if love the British Royal Family.

Not in Front of the Corgis by Brian Hoey gives you a unique inside view to unique aspects of what goes on behind the palace doors. For example, since the corgis usually stay near to the Queen, if a staff member says "Not in front of the corgis." it means the Queen is near. 

At Home with the Queen, also by Brian Hoey, is also a delightful book which focuses mainly on the Palace staff for the Queen, and other parts of royal life. While this book may seem very similar to Not in Front of the Corgis, I can assure you that the books each contain mostly different information with little overlap. 

The Final Curtsey, by Margaret Rhodes, is a memoir written by the Queen's maternal cousin. The book contains various childhood memories as Rhodes recounts games they played as children, such as "Catching Happy Days", a game where the girls would run around catching leaves as they fell from trees. 

Elizabeth The Queen by Sally Bedell Smith is a beautifully written and detailed biography of the Queen's entire life. If you don't know much about Queen Elizabeth II and want to get a well written biography with colorful pictures that goes up to the current day, or you watched The Crown and want to know more details about the Queen's life, this book is most definitely for you.

Remember Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth's grandmother from The Crown? Matriarch by Anne Edwards covers her amazing life and the six reigns she witnessed. Anne Edwards takes you back to a world where almost every country in Europe had a King, and all the royal families were related, to Queen Mary's reign and becoming one of the few remaining royal families in Europe, all the way to the setting of The Crown, when Princess Elizabeth, her granddaughter, becomes Queen Elizabeth II. 

The Little Princesses, by Marion Crawford, also known as Crawfie, Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret's doting former tutor, is an amazing and unique recount of watch the princesses grow up. A fun anecdote is the story of Cousin Halifax. Whenever Princess Margaret, as a child, did something she wasn't supposed to, she would blame it on the imaginary Cousin Halifax. This book is full of adorable things the Princesses said and did, and it sheds a new light on the previously mysterious royal sisters.

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