Title: Not as funny as I'd hoped
Review: The cover picture is a bit misleading, this book isn't really very funny. If you don't know anything about European history, you may find it interesting, but if you do know anything about the sujbect, there isn't lilkely to be much in here to surprise you. Mr. Farquhar has strong prejudices, he doesn't like Queen Victoria, who he refers to as a 'sourpuss' (she wasn't) and prefers her lecherous son Edward VII. He tells us that George I was a 'distant' relative of the Stuarts (actually he had as much Stuart blood in him as the Pretenders, which is to say not very much). The book is divided up rather strangely, anecdotes about various monarchs are scattered through the book, so there are bits of Elizabeth I in one part, more bits in another part etc. Will Cuppy did this sort of thing so much better.
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