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 Add to Wish List
William Shawcrossβs 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 Elizabethβs insightful, witty private correspondence. Indeed, The Sunday Times described her letters as βwonderful . . . brimful of liveliness and irreverence, steeliness and sweetness.β
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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