A Royal Affair

A joy to read, full of wit and fascinating detail. This is history told by a master storyteller -- Princess Michael of Kent * Mail on Sunday *
A rollickingly good read * Observer *
Stella Tillyard tells this astonishing tale with bravura * Sunday Telegraph *
A very good read. There is pace, colour and well-researched writing -- Leslie Mitchell * Literary Review *
In this superbly engrossing and revelatory book, Tillyard's detective instincts and clever narrative structure work together to inform and delight -- Min Wild * Independent on Sunday *
Dr Tillyard's masterful and entertaining accounts of the fates of George's brothers are poignant reminders of the curse of being born royal -- Ben Wilson * Spectator *
A ripping good yarn, told with convincing authority * The Times *
The numerous fans of her Aristocrats (in which number I include myself) will not be disappointed: here is the same judicious mixture of intimacy and scholarship -- Antonia Fraser * Sunday Times *
A Royal Affair is an entertaining tale ...Tillyard's account of the brothers is heroic...[she] tells this astonishing tale with bravura -- John de Falbe * Daily Telegraph *
She has returned to what she knows-and does-best, teasing out the bonds of love, hate and pretend indifference that bind siblings, no matter what their historical pedigree, into a cat's cradle of consequence * Economist *