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Elizabeth, The Queen Mother
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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Non-Fiction Biography
Harold Nicolson called her �the greatest Queen since
Cleopatra,� while Cecil Beaton called her �a marshmallow
made on a welding machine.� Stephen Tennant said: �She
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.� Who was she? The Queen Mother�s 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 � and the real
person gets hidden behind the perceived image � 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
Britain�s most loved national treasures
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