Royals

What with news of the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, it’s useful to have an updated Royal Family tree with birth years, titles, and succession indicators: For some readers this will be old hat. Not for me, alas. I’ve seen just one episode of The Crown.

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Current reading (books):
  • W. J. Cash, The Mind of the South (for the group)
  • Agatha Christie, Evil Under the Sun
  • Agatha Christie (writing as Mary Westmacott), Absent in the Spring
  • E. W. Hornung, The Amateur Cracksman
  • C. S. Lewis, Perelandra
  • François Mauriac, The Holy Terror (a mini-book – for making up lost ground)
  • John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat (ditto)
  • Aristotle, Poetics (ditto)
  • John Perry, A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality (ditto)
  • Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince (ditto; a re-read)
  • books mentioned previously, as yet unfinished
I was going to say it’s pretty cupcake, but surveying the list, I see the authors include two Nobel winners (Mauriac and Steinbeck), two Great Books of the Western World contributors (Aristotle and Machiavelli), and two theological giants (Christie and Lewis). So, not too shabby after all. Mr. Quiring would approve. Maybe not of Christie. I shake my head whenever well-read people don’t bother with Christie, especially if they do read Chesterton and Sayers. (See the latter’s gem “Aristotle on Detective Fiction,” which I found in Anthony Kenny’s Oxford World’s Classics edition of the Poetics.)