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Jean des Cars: "The British monarchy is also a spectacle"

2022-01-11T15:10:15.287Z


INTERVIEW - The writer and journalist traces the history of the Windsor dynasty, from Queen Victoria to the birth of Prince George in The Windsor Saga. From the British Empire to Elizabeth II. A true novel that mixes tradition and daring.


The television series

The Crown

made it possible to penetrate the heart of the British royal family.

If Queen Elizabeth II has accustomed us to her dignity in all circumstances, she does not escape the tragedy of history and intimate dramas.

Specialist in crowned heads, the writer and journalist Jean des Cars, who does not hide his admiration for the Queen and the British monarchy, publishes an updated edition of

The Saga of the Windsor.

From the British Empire to Elizabeth II

, at Perrin.

Release which comes in the year of the platinum jubilee (70 years of reign), whose content of the festivities, scheduled from June 2 to 5, was presented by Buckingham Palace last Monday.

LE FIGARO.

- What did you think of the television series

The Crown

?

Jean DES CARS.

-

It's a superb series, very skillfully scripted.

However, I put down some caveats.

Some liberties are taken with historical truth.

For example, it is not possible that the queen, humiliated by Lord Altrincham's diatribes, even ...

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Source: lefigaro

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