{"product_id":"books-mrs-queen-takes-the-train-by-william-kuhn","title":"Mrs Queen Takes the Train","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"A witty, contemporary story of the Downton Abbey-esque tensions between servants and employers, the young and the old, and tradition and modernity.\" -- Glamour\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn absolute delight of a debut novel by William Kuhn--author of Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books--Mrs Queen Takes the Train wittily imagines the kerfuffle that transpires when a bored Queen Elizabeth strolls out of the palace in search of a little fun, leaving behind a desperate team of courtiers who must find the missing Windsor before a national scandal erupts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfter decades of service and years of watching her family's troubles splashed across the tabloids, Britain's Queen is beginning to feel her age. An unexpected opportunity offers her relief: an impromptu visit to a place that holds happy memories--the former royal yacht, Britannia, now moored near Edinburgh. Hidden beneath a skull-emblazoned hoodie, the limber Elizabeth (thank goodness for yoga) walks out of Buckingham Palace and heads for King's Cross to catch a train to Scotland. But a colorful cast of royal attendants has discovered her missing. In uneasy alliance a lady-in-waiting, a butler, an equerry, a girl from the stables, a dresser, and a clerk from the shop that supplies Her Majesty's cheese set out to bring her back before her absence becomes a national scandal.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eComic and poignant, fast-paced and clever, Mrs Queen Takes the Train tweaks the pomp of the monarchy, going beneath its rigid formality to reveal the human heart of the woman at its center.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53674868408593,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780062208293.jpg?v=1781536107","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-mrs-queen-takes-the-train-by-william-kuhn","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}