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ELIZABETH, THE QUEEN MOTHER
By: Hugo Vickers
An authoritative and affectionate biography of the Late Queen Mother.
Aspect
July 2006
Featuring: Elizabeth, Dowager Queen
400 pages
ISBN: 0099476622
Paperback (reprint)
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Harold Nicolson called her Γ―ΒΏΒ½the greatest Queen since Cleopatra,Γ―ΒΏΒ½ while Cecil Beaton called her Γ―ΒΏΒ½a marshmallow made on a welding machine.Γ―ΒΏΒ½ Stephen Tennant said: Γ―ΒΏΒ½She looked everything that she was not: gentle, gullible, tenderness mingled with dispassionate serenity, cool, well-bred, remote. Behind this veil she schemed and vacillated, hard as nails.Γ―ΒΏΒ½ Who was she? The Queen MotherΓ―ΒΏΒ½s story has not yet been properly told. This was partly due to her long life, and the difficulty that always exists when a biography of a living person is attempted, partly because she was a queen Γ―ΒΏΒ½ and the real person gets hidden behind the perceived image Γ―ΒΏΒ½ and partly because she is hard to pin down. From her privileged aristocratic childhood, to the abdication and the problems with Diana, this book questions how she faced her challenges and crises, assesses her role, how powerful she was, and how she coped. This is a candid, personal portrait of one of BritainΓ―ΒΏΒ½s most loved national treasures
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