A new book on the Queen Mother that calls her insane has made Royal Family furious.
The book 'Backstairs Billy: The Royal Life Of William Tallon' has accused Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon, mother of Queen Elizabeth II, of being insane and inebriated for the last 20 years of her long and illustrious life, the Daily Express reported.
The publisher's blurb for the book, which has been posted on Amazon, said that as far as the public was concerned, the Royal Family was a model of reticence but Billy saw the other side of a family whose members loved drinking and smoking, swearing and playing sometimes cruel practical jokes on each other in private.
The blurb added that they hated anything serious and were constantly making jokes at each other's expense. The Queen Mother was especially good at all this, which was partly because she had a great sense of fun and partly because, for the last 20 years of her life, she was dotty to the point of lunacy.