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Article: Keeping up with the Windsors
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- January 3, 1996
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The Decline and Fall of the House of Windsor. By Donald Spoto.
Simon & Schuster. 474 pages. $27.50.
So many books have been written about the hapless House of
Windsor! So many of them have been fun to read, even though you
feel slightly queasy afterward, as if you'd eaten too much grilled
salmon or too many chocolate chip cookies.
Books about the royal family are an odd mix of prurience and
culture, a strange cross between the movie magazines of the '40s
(did Glenn Ford really enjoy his love scenes with Rita Hayworth?)
and Vanity Fair (can they really think up another way to show Demi
Moore without her clothes on?).
Donald Spoto has found the perfect tone to retell these same old ...