Wendy Holden’s latest books feature Royal Sagas with two women who got on the wrong side of the Windsors – that’s Queen Elizabeth’s royal house, in case you didn’t know – and they both lived to regret it. My, how they lived to regret it.

Crawfie, Queen Elizabeth’s very important World War Two governess, and Wallis Simpson, the woman whose name became synonymous with forcing a king’s abdication, both came out of their exchanges with the Windsors very badly.

But have we been told the full story, and have they been treated fairly? Wendy tends to think not.

Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler, and in today’s Binge Reading Wendy talks about these two latest books – one called The Governess, the other called The Duchess. She explains why she thinks there are still truths to be told about both women and the history that unfolded around them.

We’ve got three eBooks of The Governess to give away to three lucky readers in our new promotion – Royal House for the month of September. Enter the draw on our website www.thejoysofbingereading.com/giveaway. You’ll find links to Wendy’s books and contact details there as well.

ENTER DRAW FOR THE GOVERNESS

News on Binge Reading On Patreon

I’ve got exciting news on the Patreon front. First- the not so good part – I’ve discovered thanks to one of our listeners, Shakkura, who especially liked the Sara Sue’s Cherokee Nation episode – that Patreon Binge Reading link wasn’t working.  It was a very minor glitch, but I struggle with the back end stuff so don’t ask me why it opened for me but not for the public. That’s fixed now and I’d like to give a shoutout to Shakkura for alerting me to the problem and them becoming our first Patreon supporter once it was fixed.!

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Six things you'll learn from Wendy Holden podcast

Six things you’ll learn from this Joys of Binge Reading episode:

Why Wendy's is pivoting from chick lit to historical fictionHow she'd become fascinated with the royalsHer different reading of the Wallis-Edward love affairThe shameful exile of a devoted royal governessWorking in the garden hut during lockdownThe book she just read that she loved

Where to find Wendy Holden: 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wendyholdenauthor/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wendy.holden.1401

Twitter: ‎@Wendy_Holden

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53288434-the-lost- apothecary

Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wendy-Holden/e/B000AQ79TO?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1585161065&sr=1-1

What follows is a "near as" transcript of our conversation, not word for word but pretty close to it, with links to important mentions.

But now, here’s Wendy.

Introducing historical fiction author Wendy Holden

Jenny Wheeler: Hello there, Wendy, and welcome to the show. It's so good to have you with us.

Author Wendy Holden

Wendy Holden: Thank you so much, Jenny. It's so exciting to be talking to wonderful New Zealand, a country which I would love to visit. When everything's possible, when the world's opened up again, I'll be over like a shot.

Jenny Wheeler: Yes, it's a sore point for us, because we're back in lockdown at the moment.

Wendy Holden: I’m so sorry about that. Isn’t that awful?

Jenny Wheeler: They sent us Delta from Sydney, very unfair of them.

You have got The Governess and The Duchess – two fantastic b...