The problem with historical
fiction, be it a novel or TV series, is my inability to distinguish between the
hopefully accurate historical context and the presumably embellished or just
plain made up fiction; today I finished Bruce Holsinger’s novel “A Burnable
Book” set in the troubled reign of Richard II and watched the second episode of
ITV’s presentation of the early reign of Queen Victoria – both shed light on
the respective monarchs’ life and times but was Richard actually moments from
assassination by a papal envoy and did rats really emerge from Victoria’s 19th
birthday cake?
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