JOHN BLANDVILLE: QUEEN FLED TO STALINGRAD TO ESCAPE RURAL IRELAND DURING WW2

Date: February 13, 2020 - Craic & Codology

John Banville

John Banville


John Blandville’s latest book proposes a pet theory that the Queen and Princess Margaret were forced to flee from rural Ireland during the Second World War. Having briefly been sequestered in Tipperary to escape the Blitz, the royal children demurred, saying they felt as if they’d been “cast out of the frying pan and into… Read more »

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