POD Save the Queen!

Hello and welcome back to POD Save the Queen.

I'm your host Ann Gripper and we have a special guest with us this week.

I've been interested to talk for a while about the

Edward and Wallace story. So I'm delighted to be joined by Alexander Larmon who is the

author of the new book The Crown in Crisis, which is all about just that really.

So Alex, welcome to the show.

It's lovely to be here, Anne.

It's great to have you with this.

I mean, the first thing I have to ask, given the unusual times in which we are living is like how are you are you okay how is it locked down for treating you?

Well it was funny because I was editing the book and doing the last few things like

proof edits and so on during lockdown and it's quite bizarre because obviously a book like this is

very heavy on the research normally I'll just go to the library to double check

prints but he just gets the stage by the end that's home to order books off

Amazon just to check minor details which was quite unexpected.

Oh well big big book sale of getting passing out all of the used up research but the book the book has come out and it is available it is available right now but how did you

become interested in in this period of history? Well my earlier books were set in the 17th and 18th century so this is quite a move forward but it

started off as a biography of a man called Sir Walter Monckerton who's8 says Dieser during the time of the

application beyond. And as I looked into Monckton and his

fairly extraordinary life, I did realize that the application would be the

absolute highlight of not only of his life, but pretty much of everyone else involved in it.

And it was such an extraordinarily rich and dramatic time, but I was looking at all the other books that have been published,

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