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Elizabeth and Marilyn
Julie Owen Moylan
Ballantine Books
368 Pages
Pub. Date: April 7, 2026
This novel is about one moment in time; when Marilyn Monroe met the Queen of England. Now, of course, there is much more context, specifically the lives of the two women before and at the time of the meeting. Without any of this, there would not be enough for any book.
I have always been fascinated by Marilyn Monroe, who let such a short and tragic life. I am less enthralled with the royal family, however, the author managed to engage my interest. The author also did the right thing in a novel like this; she did not tell the reader what or how to think about the two women and the similarities or differences between them. She told their stories and let the reader draw his or her own conclusions.
This novel will be of interest to those who are interested in Marilyn Monroe or Queen Elizabeth and English monarchs or those who like seeing how two individuals, who have little in common, have lives that intersect and can find commonalities even when their lives are quite different. One thing that I look for in books like these is whether I learn something about the real characters that are within their pages. Even though I have read a good deal about Marilyn Monroe,
I learned some things about her that I did not know. I absolutely love to be able to learn something from historical fiction. I also learned about Queen Elizabeth, though admittedly, I did not know much ab Thanks to NetGalley and Ballantine Books for an advanced copy of this book. All of the opinions herein are my own.
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