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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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