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Elizabeth, the Queen Mother

Af: Hugo Vickers Engelsk Paperback

Elizabeth, the Queen Mother

Af: Hugo Vickers Engelsk Paperback
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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.

Hugo Vickers, an acknowledged expert on the House of Windsor, has spent seventeen years researching this book, and observed the Queen Mother in public and private over a period of forty years.

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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.

Hugo Vickers, an acknowledged expert on the House of Windsor, has spent seventeen years researching this book, and observed the Queen Mother in public and private over a period of forty years.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 704
ISBN-13: 9780099476627
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0099476622
Kategori: Forside
Udg. Dato: 4 maj 2006
Længde: 53mm
Bredde: 133mm
Højde: 196mm
Forlag: Cornerstone
Oplagsdato: 4 maj 2006
Forfatter(e): Hugo Vickers
Forfatter(e) Hugo Vickers

Kategori Forside

ISBN-13 9780099476627

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 704

Udgave

Længde 53mm

Bredde 133mm

Højde 196mm

Udg. Dato 4 maj 2006

Oplagsdato 4 maj 2006

Forlag Cornerstone