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The Queen Mother: The Official Biography Paperback - 2010
by William Shawcross
The author of "Deliver Us from Evil" presents the official and definitive biography of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: consort of King George VI, mother of Queen Elizabeth II, grandmother of Prince Charles--and the most beloved British monarch of the 20th century.
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The official and definitive biography of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: consort of King George VI, mother of Queen Elizabeth II, grandmother of Prince Charles--and the most beloved British monarch of the twentieth century.Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon--the ninth of the Earl of Strathmore's ten children--was born on August 4, 1900, and, certainly, no one could have imagined that her long life (she died in 2002) would come to reflect a changing nation over the ourse of an entire century. Now, William Shawcross--given unrestricted access to the Queen Mother's personal papers, letters, and diaries--gives us a portrait of unprecedented vividness and detail. Here is the girl who helped convalescing soldiers during the First World War . . . the young Duchess of York helping her reluctant husband assume the throne when his brother abdicated . . . the Queen refusing to take refuge from the bombing of London, risking her own life to instill courage and hope in others who were living through the Blitz . . . the dowager Queen--the last Edwardian, the charming survivor of a long-lost era--representing her nation at home and abroad . . . the matriarch of the Royal Family and "the nation's best-loved grandmother."A revelatory royal biography that is, as well, a singular history of Britain in the twentieth century.From the Hardcover edition.
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- Title The Queen Mother: The Official Biography
- Author William Shawcross
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 1168
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, U.S.A.
- Date 2010-11-16
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9781400078349 / 1400078342
- Weight 3.13 lbs (1.42 kg)
- Dimensions 9.14 x 6.16 x 2.28 in (23.22 x 15.65 x 5.79 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress subjects Queens - Great Britain, Elizabeth
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011381169
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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- New York Times Book Review, 12/26/2010, Page 24
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