Prince William and William & Kate Books

[Ella Kay]

Originally Posted by Menarue

Sorry to say it sounds as though it is going to be very boring, he is boring and so is she, so unless the writer is a second Barbara Cartland you will fall asleep after the first one or two pages. Goodness, what have they done to write a book about?

He went into the forces and she did the photographs for Party Pieces. Yawwwwn.

LOL. They're not exactly wild and crazy people, from what we've seen of them. I suppose it might be scenes of college studying interspersed with paparazzi intrusion while simply walking down the street to the ATM and occasional family shooting parties at Sandringham?

I just don't understand why someone would want to write a book before all of the actual interesting stuff happens, the royal wedding drama part (actually I do -- $$$$$). Besides, probably anything they'll write about the couple could already be read on the 'net anyway.

[Warren]

Don't take it so seriously. There's a market out there for royal romance fluff. It there wasn't, these books wouldn't see the light of day. The books will have comparisons between William and Kate's childhoods and will have a great deal to say about Diana. William's sterling military service and exalted destiny will get a run, with the happy conclusion of a forthcoming wedding with handsome prince and radiant bride. Of course it will be filled out with lots of glossy pictures. Any of us could probably piece most of the story together from what we know and from all the stuff we've read over the years.

The market these books are aimed at doesn't possess the same level of detailed interest or knowledge (or cynicism) as we who've been around the Forums for a while have. The books are probably relatively cheap to produce, they'll make enough sales to earn the writers and publishers a reasonable income, and a little while later they will be found in the bargain bins. It's simply modern publishing, and royal fluff books have been around for decades.

As examples, I have a book by Robert Lacey about the Queen Mother titled, of all things, "God Bless Her!" Then there's a book called "Royal Highness...The Royal Child" which is all about the ancestry of "HRH", published while Diana was pregnant but before Prince William was born. Then there's "Portrait of a Princess", the life story of Princess Anne; well, up to the age of twenty that is. Going back much further, I have a 1936 book called "Our Ambassador King: His Majesty King Edward VIII's Life of Devotion and Service". If anyone thnks royal fluff is new, try this out:
"Throughout the happy home life he enjoyed, he had the full and healthy life of the normal English youth... He has always been eager to learn and ready to glean all possible knowledge about any subject in which he was interested... with amazing energy and determination he has often crowded into a single day a mass of work which would have appalled the majority of his future subjects... he developed into a keen and active man of the world who, while retaining all his boyish cheerfulness, added the full attributes of a man's estate."
And that was just excerpts from page 1.

[Menarue]

Hey Warren we are talking about a book, the future one, or is it already published and the effect it will have on its readers, it just happens to be, or is going to be, a biography of William and Kate.
I will stick with Pride and Prejudice though. It doesn´t matter how often I read it I always have the feeling "are they going to end up together?" Now that is writing.

[Warren]

Or The Lord of The Rings. Will Frodo manage to destroy the One Ring?? Will Sauron be defeated?? Will Middle Earth be saved?? Gasp!

[Amelia]

I presume that there is a market out there for these books or else publishers wouldn’t be interested in them but I don’t understand what they could possible be writing about that their audience haven’t already read in newspapers over the years.

[Mermaid1962]

From what I've read, many aristocratic daughters seemed to be used as pawns married off for social or financial reasons. I think that would be frightening, growing up knowing that you might end up being married off to someone that one didn't particularly like and who might be much older.

Originally Posted by Menarue

9 years old...... that´s terrible. I have the same background minus film stars that Blondie has but it makes me grieve to think how many of the aristocratic families made money from poor little children down a mine, mills etc.
The women in the aristocratic families didn´t have it that easy either in a different way, on my husband´s family tree there is a young girl (daughter of a Count) who married at 19 had 5 children became a widow and married again and had 15 children.
From the dates that are provided I think she died of the 20th......
Buy a book about Kate´s relatives, no thanks.

[Warren]

"Kate: Kate Middleton, Princess in Waiting", Claudia Joseph 2009

Here is a link to the cover

Here is a link to a review dated 12 April 2009
quote:
If there is a Bricks without Straw Award, Claudia Joseph deserves to be on the shortlist. Most of us would find it hard to write 70 words on Kate Middleton. Joseph has managed 70,000, even though she appears to have received no co-operation either from the subject or from Kate's immediate family. Most of these words, it must be said, are either rehashed gobbets of royal history or trawls through the genealogical records of Kate's thunderingly boring forebears, but even so.

The publisher makes some brave boasts: "Claudia Joseph has spoken to members of Kate's family and friends, who have provided an intriguing insight." The reality would appear to be that a few of Kate's distant cousins have provided her with pictures of Kate's grandparents and great-aunts and that, for the rest, Joseph has had to rely on some genealogical researchers, and dear old Google.

[angieuk]

I got the book from my local library yesterday and am really enjoying it. I prefer to make my own mind up and despite some people trashing the book I am enjoying it very much .... glad I do my own thinking and I happen to think the author has put a lot of effort into it. I think the comments of Kate's relatives has made it even more interesting too and the dob of siblings.
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Catherine Elizabeth 9 January 1982

At last I have found out more about Kate's siblings from reading Claudia Joseph's book.

Pippa ... read name Philippa born on 6 September 1983

James born on 15 April 1987

(No wonder Catherine and Phillipa are so close coming in 1982 and 1983 respectively!)

Michael Middleton Kate's father was apparently born on 23 June 1949 (not 19th June)

Carole Middleton Kate's mother born on 31 January 1955

Kate parent's married on 21 June 1980

[angieuk]

Royal Romance

William & Kate: “Celebrating” Slightly Delayed - Royal Romance
William & Kate: “Celebrating” Slightly Delayed

[lumutqueen]

Well well then. Can't wait for this book to surface. That is a wonderful new picture of Kate, foam parties are always fun :)
x

[Ella Kay]

Originally Posted by lumutqueen

Well well then. Can't wait for this book to surface. That is a wonderful new picture of Kate, foam parties are always fun :)
x

I'm excited about it, too -- I think there will be some great pictures in the book that we've never seen before. If only they'd get on with the engagement announcement so we can get the book, too!

[Iluvbertie]

Originally Posted by Zonk

Yes, we do have a year but at least we know its happening.

William and Kate have been dating for years now and we are still speculating on an engagement.

Do we really know it is happening or is this more press speculation?

I am not convinced that because a book is being delayed and the BBC supposedly has some programme in the works that it necessarily means that anything is happening.

I can understand that the publishers might like to delay the launch of the book until there is an engagement but it still doesn't mean that there will be an engagement - just that the publishers don't want to go to the expense of publishing and then have them split or wait another two or three years as they know they will get a much bigger sale if they wait until they get engaged and then release the book.

[angieuk]

It will be interesting to see if :
Robin Nunn new book is released next Tuesday 1 September 09 (Amazon).
http://www.amazon.com/William-Kate-Celebrating-Royal-Romance/dp/1862058431/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1251190429&sr=8-1
· Hardcover: 160 pages
· Publisher: Pavilion (September 1, 2009)
· Language: English
· ISBN-10: 1862058431
· ISBN-13: 978-1862058439
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· Amazon.com Sales Rank: #644,216 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books

[lumutqueen]

Ooo that book sounds interesting. Dailymail's going to have a field day.