Book 26: Queens of England by Norah Lofts

I have three books by Norah Lofts on my bookshelf and two are favorites, so selecting this book at the Wilton Library sale was a no brainer.  This book is what the books in Vicki Leon's Uppity Women series could be if Leon didn't try so desperately to be funny and IMHO fail miserably.

The vignettes about each queen range from two to eight pages. Lofts includes Boadicea (not a true queen) and Guinevere (a legendary queen.) Historical queens range from Matilda Queen to William the Conqueror to Queen Elizabeth II, Queen in her own right.

I enjoyed the book up to the Queen Elizabeth II chapter, which became a defense of the British monarchy. Apparently, the political world abhors a vacuum so America ended up with Nixon and Watergate, Germany with Hitler, and Russia killed its Tsar and got the Politburo. A bit simplistic, I'd say.