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The Guy Harford Mysteries by T P Fielden
Feb. 18th, 2024 08:47 am Stealing the Crown
Burying the Crown
Betraying the Crown
I read these three books one after another, which suggests I enjoyed them. What I didn’t bother to read on Amazon and didn’t see until finishing the first book was this:
‘TP Fielden is the fiction-writing name of the acclaimed royal biographer and commentator Christopher Wilson, who has penned biographies of Charles, Camilla, Diana and other members of the British royal family.’
I’ve never heard of Christopher Wilson or his royal biographies and if I’d read this earlier, I might not have bothered with the books, which would have been a shame.
Britain in wartime. Guy Harford is a painter living in Tangier when he gets involved in a diplomatic fracas, is made a scapegoat and bundled off home, leaving everything behind. He’s given a job in the Foreign Office and a flatmate, the enigmatic Rupert. Then Guy is seconded to Buckingham Palace, where his main job is to ensure that no whiff of scandal ever gets out about their majesties and the princesses. We know very little about Guy. He is tall, handsome, charming, has nice manners. We only know this because other people say so. He's a chap with the kind of aunt who leaves him a house in Tangier, all of which marks him as a member of the English upper middle class. As for who his parents were (are?) or what school he went to, they are mysteries and these things matter in the circles he now moves in.
( the mysteries )
Burying the Crown
Betraying the Crown
I read these three books one after another, which suggests I enjoyed them. What I didn’t bother to read on Amazon and didn’t see until finishing the first book was this:
‘TP Fielden is the fiction-writing name of the acclaimed royal biographer and commentator Christopher Wilson, who has penned biographies of Charles, Camilla, Diana and other members of the British royal family.’
I’ve never heard of Christopher Wilson or his royal biographies and if I’d read this earlier, I might not have bothered with the books, which would have been a shame.
Britain in wartime. Guy Harford is a painter living in Tangier when he gets involved in a diplomatic fracas, is made a scapegoat and bundled off home, leaving everything behind. He’s given a job in the Foreign Office and a flatmate, the enigmatic Rupert. Then Guy is seconded to Buckingham Palace, where his main job is to ensure that no whiff of scandal ever gets out about their majesties and the princesses. We know very little about Guy. He is tall, handsome, charming, has nice manners. We only know this because other people say so. He's a chap with the kind of aunt who leaves him a house in Tangier, all of which marks him as a member of the English upper middle class. As for who his parents were (are?) or what school he went to, they are mysteries and these things matter in the circles he now moves in.
( the mysteries )
