Talking about Joe Biden and the late Prince Philip by Ingrid Seward who has made a cottage industry of researching, Royals, one by one and then cranking out a book about them.
After a little researching of my own, I discovered that in the Biden book - entitled "Joe Biden, The Life" The Run " What Matters Now" by Evan Osnos Winner of the National Book Award
It's a short book (176 pages$23)
I learned that Joe Biden had surgery for an aneurism of the brain, discovered while on the campaign trail in Rochester, NY in 1988. Surgery saved his life but it was a long recovery process. Perhaps that's what gives rise to all of the dementia rumors, tales today?
Some Ingrid Seward volumes : "Prince Philp Revealed" A much meatier book - 374 pages $30
"Diana: An Intimate Portrait."
"By Royal Invitation: At home with the royal family - how they eat, sleep (presumably with their mate, if any". But then I think of Charles and Camilla - not so much maybe.
Other volumes cover how to look like a royal but not be one. Show-off at the dinner table with proper place settings "Fish fork 5 in. closer to the butter knife... Various glasses, champagne flutes before the red wine."
Astute readers here may pick up on Seward's main theme in all of her books - curiosity about their life styles. It's as though the commoners want to peek behind the curtain. I'm certainly one and I make no bones about it. Consider this: Queen Elizabeth travels with a white kidskin toilet seat. Is there a Lady of the Toilet Seat? And Noble Women who vie for it? God save us all along with the Queen.
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