Royal tours of Canada by the Canadian Royal Family the not yet named territorial capital, in the dining room of the Royal Train, Princess Louise named the new community "Regina", after her mother, the Queen. Princess Louise was visited by her family members during her time in Canada. Her brother, The Prince Leopold (later Duke of Albany), came to Canada to review soldiers on the Plains of Abraham, Quebec City, and fish on the Cascapédia River. Louise's nephew, George, Prince of Wales, was in Canada as a midshipman of the Royal Navy, visiting Niagara Falls, Montreal, Quebec City, Halifax, and staying for a lengthy period at Rideau Hall in
The World Is What It Is in 1996. The biography has been extensively reviewed: the reviewers include Paul Theroux, who wrote an earlier book about Naipaul. The biography was selected by the editors of the "New York Times Book Review" as one of the "Times"' "10 Best Books of 2008". It won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography, and the British literary award the Hawthornden Prize. The World Is What It Is The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul is a biography of the Nobel Prize-winning author V. S. Naipaul by Patrick French. It was published in