What should William and Kate read?
In The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett the Queen is transformed by reading. The corgis get away from her one day and run barking around the bookmobile which is parked behind the palace kitchens. The Queen, always polite, goes in to apologize for the racket and then feels obliged to borrow a book. Soon she's hooked and learning how to wave from her carriage with one hand while holding her book discreetly out of view with the other. She particularly likes Love in a Cold Climate and The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford ("books seldom came better connected than these") but she also reads Henry James and Sylvia Plath and meets and becomes a fan of Alice Munro.
What books would you recommend to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (aka William and Kate)?
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