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Kate: The Making Of A Princess (2010)

by Claudia Joseph(Favorite Author)

3 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1845965779 (ISBN13: 9781845965778)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Mainstream Publishing

review 1: Total trash reading. So unlike me! :-)Everyone has their celebrity fixation, and I'll admit it: mine is the royal family. The first half or so of the book is a relatively detailed history of Kate's lineage, tracing both sides of her family back into the 1600s. It reads kind of like an episode of "Who Do You Think You Are," pointing out random famous people who Kate is distantly related to (like Sir John Gielgud and the Spencer family). It felt like nearly all of the chapters ended with a dumb line like "and they never could have imagined that their great-great-great-great granddaughter would someday marry the heir to the throne!". The second part of the book is, basically, a long tabloid article, detailing (inasmuch as details are known) Kate and William's relationsh... moreip, from the time they met at St. Andrews through their engagement. It seems like the book would have been well-served to at least wait until *after* their wedding to publish it (and get in all of that wedding-related gossip) but I suppose there was probably something to be said for getting out The First Biography Of The New Princess! In any case, because I do (she admits with some embarrassment) read royal gossip, there wasn't really anything in here I hadn't heard before.It seems kind of besides the point to assign any stars to this book at all: it is what it is, you know?
review 2: This felt like two seperate books. The first part was largely about Kate's more distant ancestors. It bounced between what was going on in their lives, as commoners, and what was going on in the royal family at the same time, which was a really neat historical perspective.The second half of the book read like a long tabloid article on Kate's like - where she ate, who she hung out with, etc. I wouldn't call it a good biography but it considering I hadn't really kept up with the Kate/William story until they announced their engagement it was new to me and a fun read. less

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