This displays Harper’s mastery at fictional profiles of prominent 20th-century women. 41 books based on 26 votes: The Gown by Jennifer Robson, The Queens Secret by Karen Harper, The Royal Nanny by Karen Harper, The Other Windsor Girl: A N.

Creator/Contributor: Harper, Karenauthor. While not all of the dishy details are historically established-for instance, the story lines about Elizabeth’s supposedly true parentage, her largely celibate marriage, and certain peccadillos of her brother-in-law, the former king, which call his character into question-Harper’s evocative prose and able plotting make each twist and turn believable. The queens secret : a novel of Englands World War II queen / Karen Harper. The Queen's Secret by Karen Harper (ebook) The Queen's Secret A Novel of England's World War II Queen Karen Harper, Click to preview If you love Jennifer Robson or The Crown you will love New York Times bestselling author Karen Harper’s novel about Elizabeth, The Queen Mother. The book also includes in the plot other historical characters including Winston Churchill and his wife Clementine Eleanor Roosevelt Queen Mary and Dwight D. Harper’s artful prose brings Elizabeth to glorious life as tensions mount around the animosity between Elizabeth and upstart American socialite Wallis Warfield Simpson, whose intention to marry king Edward VIII led to his abdication (and about whom Elizabeth is said to have uttered “The two people who have caused me the most trouble in my life are Wallis Simpson and Hitler”). How timely that on the heels of Harry and Meghan’s bombshell resignation from royalty, Karen Harper’s latest historical novel, The Queen’s Secret, offers an intimate and engaging look at The Queen Mother, her family, her political power, and her secrets, carefully guarded while she worried constantly that they might be exposed. The Queen's Secret is overall a good book about the war years involving Queen Elizabeth her husband King George VI and their daughters Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret. but shes also hiding damaging secrets about her past and provenance that could prove to. Harper traces Elizabeth’s long life through her marriage to King George VI, raising her daughters Elizabeth and Margaret Rose, and living through WWII. As the wife of King George VI and mother of the future queen. Harper’s enchanting latest (after American Duchess) explores the private life of Queen Elizabeth, formerly Elizabeth Bowes Lyon.