Southside’s historic role finds new voice

But there’s more to the breezy, light reading that makes the torrid, tragic and, sometimes, terrifying life of this well-documented historical character.

Can another historic tome have anything more to say about the regal figure that has not already been said? Perhaps not, but it can be said in a different way and that is what the author has managed to do, make light reading of a hefty historic biography.