Brown can be faulted for devoting too many pages to the queen’s corgis — their rowdy behavior, their diet and their ancestry. I also found myself skimming the lengthy sections in which people describe dreams they’ve had involving the queen. But otherwise Q: A Voyage Around the Queen remains absorbing, edifying and frequently laugh-out-loud funny.
Depicts the monumental figure at its center with magnanimous levity ... Plausible evidence for the case that any book about the monarch is also a book about the realm and its populace.
Cleverly constructed, consistently insightful and hilarious, and quite possibly the closest we will ever come to understanding who the Sphinx of Balmoral really was.
