Susan Elia MacNeal introduced the remarkable Maggie Hope in her acclaimed debut, Mr. Churchill’s Secretary. Now Maggie returns to protect Britain’s beloved royals against an international plot—one that could change the course of history. As World War II sweeps the continent and England steels itself against German attack, Maggie Hope, former secretary to Prime Minister Winston Churchill, … Minister Winston Churchill, completes her training to become a spy for MI-5. Spirited, strong-willed, and possessing one of the sharpest minds in government for mathematics and code-breaking, she fully expects to be sent abroad to gather intelligence for the British front. Instead, to her great disappointment, she is dispatched to go undercover at Windsor Castle, where she will tutor the young Princess Elizabeth in math. Yet castle life quickly proves more dangerous—and deadly—than Maggie ever expected. The upstairs-downstairs world at Windsor is thrown into disarray by a shocking murder, which draws Maggie into a vast conspiracy that places the entire royal family in peril. And as she races to save England from a most disturbing fate, Maggie realizes that a quick wit is her best defense, and that the smallest clues can unravel the biggest secrets, even within her own family.
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Princess Elizabeth’s Spy is a book in one of my favorite WW2 era series. The main character is Maggie Hope – a young woman living in England during the war. She is an engaging character and all the books are action packed.
This is the second book in this series I have read. Love the character because she is real. A smart, capable, heroine who could be any of us!
What an original series! Great plot with lots of twists.
I enjoyed it and it’s imaginative replaying of history.
I got this book off of Book Bub and it was so good I went and got the rest of the books in the series. I enjoyed reading everyone of them and look forward to more of her writing.
Maggie Hope, a British woman raised in America, works for MI-5. She goes undercover as a tutor to Princess Elizabeth during World War II. While there, a lady-in-waiting is killed and Maggie finds secret decoding. She has to figure out who to trust and how to the keep the princess safe.
Very good series and good story.
British girl raised in Boston goes to London to sell grandmother’s house and stays in early years of WWII. She’s trained as a spy because of her intelligence and fluency in math, German and French. In this second book of the series Maggie is sent to Windsor palace to act as Princess Elizabeth’s math tutor, while hunting for foreign agents. When the princess is kidnapped along with Maggie and a British agent with a satchel chained to his wrist, they are taken to a U-boat to be removed to Germany. All ends well, with a few deaths along the way, and Maggie will be missed as the tutor who taught codes as well.
Enjoyable read.
Interesting subject, fun read.
Love all her books!!
Good book !
Enjoyable. Got my attention quickly.
Reminds me Foyle’s war in some details. The royal family image is very flattering but, ok, it’s fiction after all… very good writing
I love this whole series
enjoyed this book and its sequel, looking forward to more
I loved the mix of real and fictional characters in an accurate, richly detailed historical setting.
What a wonderful character Maggie Hope is, brilliant, brave, intrepid, a little flawed, all making her seem so real. The author recreates the atmosphere of WW II England so well, that the reader is immediately immersed in Maggie’s world.
This is only one in a series about a female spy in World War 2. They are all well written, characters realistic and stories interesting.
Unlike any other romance/suspense Novel I’ve read. Historical setting and people. Churchill, WW 2 England, fascinating historical detail. This is one of a series of five.
It’s a pretty good read but goes a bit over the top toward the end. Interesting reveals about that time in England but much of the plot just doesn’t ring true as it obviously didn’t happen. If it were not so extreme with the u-boat, etc., it would have been a better book and would have kept my attention.