The Secret Guests, Black - C

                     This ManBooker-winning Irish author goes a bit overboard here in a novel with the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret sent to Ireland to avoid the Blitz. Off they're sent to a rundown castle in the Irish Midlands with an aged, widowed, and dimwit Duke as host. The sisters are overseen by a young woman from the Secret Service and a Garda detective, selected because he was from the 5% of the Republic that was Protestant. Celia Nash and Det. Strafford  eventually conclude that they have security concerns. Soon enough, the IRA arrives, and in a comedy of errors, two of the three attackers are killed and Miss Nash is gravely wounded. Maybe it's a satire and I missed the point.