A Royal Affair

The story is brilliantly told. In its descriptive flourishes it is sometimes fearlessly novelistic, yet it travels long distances for scholarly scruples

John Mullan, Times Literary Supplement

In this superbly engrossing and revelatory book, Tillyard's detective instincts and clever narrative structure work together to inform and delight

Min Wild, Independent on Sunday

A joy to read, full of wit and fascinating detail. This is history told by a master storyteller

Princess Michael of Kent, Mail on Sunday

A very good read. There is pace, colour and well-researched writing

Leslie Mitchell, Literary Review

Dr Tillyard's masterful and entertaining accounts of the fates of George's brothers are poignant reminders of the curse of being born royal

Ben Wilson, Spectator

The numerous fans of her Aristocrats (in which number I include myself) will not be disappointed: here is the same judicious mixture of intimacy and scholarship

Antonia Fraser, Sunday Times

A Royal Affair is an entertaining tale ...Tillyard's account of the brothers is heroic...[she] tells this astonishing tale with bravura

John de Falbe, Daily Telegraph

She has returned to what she knows-and does-best, teasing out the bonds of love, hate and pretend indifference that bind siblings, no matter what their historical pedigree, into a cat's cradle of consequence

Economist

A rollickingly good read

Observer

Stella Tillyard tells this astonishing tale with bravura

Sunday Telegraph

A ripping good yarn, told with convincing authority

The Times