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Malcolm J. Barker, once an official at Buckingham Palace, has written this revealing memoir of his days there, laying bare the sexual shenanigans, strange characters, and boozy behavior of the not-so-devoted servants who surround Queen Elizabeth II and her family. These hilarious and shocking no-holds-barred recollections of a Buckingham Palace official take the reader behind the scenes of the British Royal household. Filled with anecdotes, revelations and gossip, this
book casts aside the public perception of how British royalty lives and substitutes the gritty reality that Barker witnessed in his four years of service. It's not a pretty picture. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The accounts that Barker relates are full of salacious acts, juvenile antics, and lots of inebriation. When he was present in a story that he tells, he is always the character who reminds others of their duty and position, he is never the one drunk, although everyone around him is all the time, and he is always the one saving the situation from disaster. In the stories he tells about events when he is not present, there is no savior, and things always end badly. He never explains how he actually knows that something happened when he did not actually see it, like his account of the footman who bared his buttocks to a visiting king. Although Barker’s writing is technically acceptable, his accounts of life in the palace are unbelievable. And since the queen sued him, perhaps they are as untrue as they seem to be. ( )