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Praise for Mrs Queen Takes the Train by William Kuhn

“This is a novel, but no matter how you felt about the Queen before reading it, you’ll come away thinking Her Majesty, at least this fictional one, charming, caring, thoughtful, and brave. William Kuhn’s book is hard to categorize genre-wise. But its light comedy, romance, and royal sensibilities, mixed with subplots touching on aging, political correctness, and respect for sexual preferences, make for a delightful escape. We can only hope there are are more train rides in Her Majesty’s future.” USA Today

“[A] charmer of a first novel ... This Elizabeth is delightful, slyly funny company. You’ll never look at the real one the same way again.”  People

“A witty, contemporary story of the ... tensions between servants and employers, the young and the old, and tradition and modernity.”  Glamour.com

“Poignant and sweet, Mrs Queen Takes the Train is a comic study of the British class system, an unusual testament to the possibilities of friendship outside normal comfort zones and an affirmation of the humanity within us all.” Richmond Times-Dispatch

“A delightful read, a bit of fiction (the train journey) set into nonfiction (everything else), and a sly look at how the monarchy is changing along with—or maybe two beats behind—the rest of Britain.”  Minneapolis StarTribune

It’s 2007, Harry’s twenty-three and he has problems he can’t handle alone. The army considers him a risk. The press thinks he’s a brat. Girls like him because he’s a prince. He just wants to be normal. He hopes service in Afghanistan will help him prove himself. Instead, deployment exposes the vulnerability under his bad boy persona and results in a comic coming of age he definitely didn’t see coming. He’s always hated the media so he doesn’t know what to do when he falls for a reporter from CNN. It’s complicated by the fact that she’s a woman disguised as a man to evade the Pentagon’s ban on women in front line positions. Nor does he anticipate making a gay best friend in a brother officer named Mustafa. And what’s his former nanny doing on the plane to Kabul? There's also a warlord driving a Mercedes and a colonel who’d much rather be reading Shakespeare.  Together they stumble upon buried trauma from Harry’s childhood. If he can learn how to cope with all that, he may find fulfillment he never dreamed was possible in being a prince.