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Also by William Shawcross:

Counting One's Blessings, December 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
The Queen Mother, October 2009
Hardcover

COUNTING ONE'S BLESSINGS
By: William Shawcross

The Selected Letters of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
December 2012
On Sale: November 27, 2012
Featuring: Queen Mary
688 pages
ISBN: 0374185220
EAN: 9780374185220
Kindle: B008MWL7VE
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction

William Shawcross’s official biography of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, published in September 2009, was a huge critical and commercial success.

One of the great revelations of the book was Queen Elizabeth’s insightful, witty private correspondence. Indeed, The Sunday Times described her letters as “wonderful . . . brimful of liveliness and irreverence, steeliness and sweetness.”

Now, Shawcross has put together a selection of her letters, drawing on the vast wealth of material in the Royal Archives and at Glamis Castle. Queen Elizabeth was a prolific correspondent from her earliest childhood before the First World War to the very end of her long life at the beginning of the twenty-first century, and her letters offer readers a vivid insight into the real person behind the public face.

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