Adelyne's review of The Crown (1947-1955) (original) (raw)

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Adelyne's Reviews > The Crown: The Official Companion, Volume 1: Elizabeth II, Winston Churchill, and the Making of a Young Queen

The Crown: The Official Companion, Volume 1: Elizabeth II, Winston Churchill, and the Making of a Young Queen (1947-1955)
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3.5 stars rounded down.

I hadn't realised when I borrowed this audiobook that it was only actually covering material up to 1955 - I was wondering why the narrative was moving so slowly and ended so suddenly! Considering this I found it okay and bumped my score up by a half star, but still rounded down to 3 as I didn't think it's the best when it comes to these sorts of books. I really enjoy auto/biographies and am interested in the Royal Family in general, so was actually surprised that this didn't work as well for me as I thought it might. There was a lot of comparison with the series, which I didn't like as I thought there was a lot of alluding to the fact that the series has a lot of interpretation by the writers and producers, implying that this is true fact when it is in fact also an interpretation by a single writer. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that, I just felt like comparisons were drawn for the sake of drawing them, and I would have much preferred to just hear about the biography itself.

It's also not the easiest book to follow on audio because of the format, which tends to follow individual people rather than work chronologically. So key events in the timeline are covered over and over: (Then) Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phillip "set off to Kenya", Winston Churchill steps down multiple times - to name a few examples. These are the ones that caught my attention, I'm pretty sure there are loads of less prominent events that I missed simply because I didn't remember them happening when they were covered first time around. The narrator also wasn't great.

Still, for a "historical" NF I found it interesting (as someone who didn't grow up or go to school in Britain, perhaps someone who had learned this through the curriculum might not), and I would listen to the second volume if I could get it on audio.

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May 30, 2023 –Finished Reading

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