HarperCollins To Play the King, Fiction, Paperback, Michael Dobbs
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Author: Mrs L Muir
Rating: 5
Review: Exciting and makes you wonder just how true it is....political plotting and dirty tricks in abundance. Good read
Author: S Riaz
Rating: 3
Review: The end of House of Cards saw Francis Urquhart as Prime Minister in a party with a reduced minority and a fictional Britain (this being published in 1992) where Charles has been the new king for four months. Having made it to the role of PM, Urquhart is keen to retain power, but this will involve some clever maneuvering. He plans an early election but, once he meets the new monarch, finds that he is eager to take a stand which is, well, political. Although Charles is unnamed, there is much that will be familiar - his love of gardening, interest in architecture, the environment, and his desire to be seen as doing the right thing. There is also much that is glossed over - the monarchy presumably too difficult a topic for Dobbs to take on too overtly. So the King writes to his son, but there is no mention of marriage or mistress. However, when the king wishes to write a speech that goes against government policy and Urquhart suggests it needs re-drafting, the two find themselves in confronation. With Dobbs being a little careful in what he says and Urquhart mixed up with an American opinion pollster, Sally Quine, which is a little too close to his affair with a journalist in the first book in the trilogy, this does not work quite as well as the first. The action dances around the King's press aide and a possibly damaging scandal about his sexuality, as well the side-story of a minor royal who would do almost anything for money, possibly loosely based on Sarah Ferguson, and the palace is not quite as exciting as Westminster. There is only one truly moving moment, where Urquhart, childless himself, shows his distain, and his jealousy, of the King's insistence that he must think of his heir (presumably not his spare, but as the younger son has now broadcast his angst over being overlooked just about everywhere I will refrain from washing his dirty linen in public, even if he hasn't. However, should he ever come across this book, it may be worth warning him that he is not important enough to be mentioned). I look forward to finishing the trilogy and intend to read on and finally finish the story of Urquhart. I feel it will end badly - Urquhart is never sympathetic, but his desire for power and the need to hang onto it, will not, I feel, be easily relinquished.
