{"id":80960,"date":"2025-05-07T04:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T04:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/80960\/"},"modified":"2025-05-07T04:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T04:45:08","slug":"king-charles-reveals-his-favourite-books-and-one-is-a-robert-harris-classic-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/80960\/","title":{"rendered":"King Charles reveals his favourite books and one is a Robert Harris classic | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

King Charles<\/a> has revealed five of his favourite books. He shared them with the Queen\u2019s Reading Room, Queen Camilla<\/a>\u2019s online book club which works to celebrate and promote the power and benefits of reading.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Among the king\u2019s favourites are a Robert Harris classic, Lustrum, and historic non-fictions that tell the tales of hard-won battles and legendary leaders. The king described them as \u201cunputdownable\u201d, \u201ccaptivating\u201d, and \u201cbeautifully written\u201d. Here are some of the king\u2019s favourite books<\/a>, according to the Queen\u2019s Reading Room.<\/p>\n

The Battle Of The Atlantic by Jonathan Dimbleby<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is an epic story of one of the most critical campaigns of the Second World War through contemporary diaries and letters, from the leaders and from the sailors on all sides.<\/p>\n

The king said: \u201cAn unputdownable and gripping account of a deadly conflict in a vast, trackless ocean that could so nearly have ended Britain’s hopes of winning the Second World War – made even more enthralling by the author’s constant referral to German archive material.”<\/p>\n

Along the Enchanted Way by William Blacker<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a memoir retelling Blacker\u2019s youth in Romania, where he lived with locals in a place ruled by the cycle of the seasons, far from the rush of the modern world.<\/p>\n

The king said: \u201cA touching and deeply moving account of a fast-disappearing way of life and culture in Transylvania, a rare and uniquely special corner of Eastern Europe.”<\/p>\n

Lustrum by Robert Harris<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a sequel to Imperium in a trilogy about the life of Cicero, a statesman who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the establishment of the Roman Empire.<\/p>\n

The king said: \u201cFrom one of the most captivating of storytellers – a brilliantly imaginative combination of history and fiction, with original letters, speeches and descriptions of events in Cicero’s lifetime, to produce another irresistible masterpiece with a warning from history.”<\/p>\n

Travels With Myself And Another by Martha Gellhorn<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a memoir retelling Gelhorn\u2019s globe-spanning adventures, both accompanied and alone. As a journalist, Gellhorn covered every military conflict from the Spanish Civil War to Vietnam and Nicaragua.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The king said: \u201cA series of the best and frequently hilarious descriptions of disastrous experiences on overseas trips from the late, lamented American travel-writer, Martha Gellhorn.”<\/p>\n

Napoleon by Adam Zamoyski<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a biography using original European sources to tell the story of Napoleon. Zamoyski presents the conqueror as a man. and a rather ordinary one at that.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The king said: \u201cA beautifully written and, at times, sympathetic portrait of a remarkable, fascinating and talented man whose fatal hubris eventually destroyed him.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"King Charles has revealed five of his favourite books. He shared them with the Queen\u2019s Reading Room, Queen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[12287,7709,7730,7731,39311,1760,518,39312,39313,7710,519],"class_list":{"0":"post-80960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-books-section","9":"tag-british-royal-family","10":"tag-charles","11":"tag-charles-iii","12":"tag-favourite-books","13":"tag-king-charles","14":"tag-king-charles-iii","15":"tag-queens-reading-room","16":"tag-robert-harris","17":"tag-royal-families","18":"tag-royal-family"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114464733534589299","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}