Elizabeth The Queen Mother

Author : Lady Colin Campbell
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 823 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781250018960

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The Queen Mother by Lady Colin Campbell Pdf

Packed with stunning revelations, this is the inside story of The Queen Mother from the New York Times bestselling author who first revealed the truth about Princess Diana Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother has been called the "most successful queen since Cleopatra." Her personality was so captivating that even her arch-enemy Wallis Simpson wrote about "her legendary charm." Portrayed as a selfless partner to the King in the Oscar-winning movie The King's Speech, The Queen Mother is most often remembered from her later years as the smiling granny with the pastel hats. When she died in 2002, just short of her 102nd birthday, she was praised for a long life well lived. But there was another side to her story. For the first time, Lady Colin Campbell shows us that the untold life of the Queen Mother is far more fascinating and moving than the official version that has been peddled ever since she became royal in 1923. With unparalleled sources--including members of the Royal Family, aristocrats, and friends and relatives of Elizabeth herself—this mesmerizing account takes us inside the real and sometimes astonishing world of the royal family.

Author : William Shawcross
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 1168 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 140504859X

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Queen Elizabeth by William Shawcross Pdf

Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes Lyon, the youngest daughter of the Earl of Strathmore, was born on 4 August, 1900. Few could have imagined the profound effect she would have on Britain and its people. This official biography tells not only her story but, through it, that of the country she loved so devotedly.

Author : Hugo Vickers
Publisher : Random House
Page : 825 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781448150724

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Elizabeth, The Queen Mother by Hugo Vickers Pdf

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, assess 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.

Author : Lady Colin Campbell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Monarchy
ISBN : 0956803814

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The Untold Life of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother by Lady Colin Campbell Pdf

She reveals the truth behind: the mystery of her birth; her intra-family relationships; how she set about getting married; her relationship with her eldest brother-in-law prior to her marriage and afterwards, when he was Prince of Wales, Edward VIII,

Author : Arthur Bousfield,Garry Toffoli
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2002-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781770701182

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Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother 1900-2002 by Arthur Bousfield,Garry Toffoli Pdf

Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother 1900 - 2002 presents the life of a remarkable woman. A Canadian perspective on a sovereign who created and cultivated a special relationship with Canada, it is the portrait of a queen who always evoked passionate reactions. Whether it was the anonymous soldier who vowed "to fight for that little lady," Adolf Hitler who described her as "the most dangerous woman in Europe," or the Canadian journalist who coined the expression "the Queen Mum," the Queen Mother seldom left people unmoved. Opening with the royal tour of 1939, during which Canadians first felt her personal magnetism, Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother 1900 - 2002 describes Elizabeth’s background and development, relating how she made a marriage that brought her to the centre stage of public life. It traces her tender support of her shy husband, a reluctant king, shows how she began her Commonwealth role, and recalls her shock at the sudden and unexpected call to wear the Crown. Faced with the never-ending duties of a queen, Elizabeth proved capable of providing inspired leadership for a society faced with the stark prospect of destruction in a war to save the world. On the premature death of her beloved husband she became Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, a role that has shaped nearly half her life, and one in which Canada has always played an important part. The authors analyze Her Majesty’s successes and failures, both public and private, against the background of a century of violent disruption, material achievement, and incredible change.

Author : William Shawcross
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Elizabeth, Queen, consort of George VI, King of Great Britian, 1900-2002
ISBN : 1921743352

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Queen Elizabeth: the Queen Mother by William Shawcross Pdf

Author : DK Publishing,Dorling Kindersley Publishing
Publisher : DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0789458446

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Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother by DK Publishing,Dorling Kindersley Publishing Pdf

In honor of the Queen Mother's one hundreth birthday, this illustrated chronology documents the story of her life with newspaper-style articles and captions to recount all the major events in the lives of the royal family over the past one hundred years.

Author : William Shawcross
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780230767416

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Counting One's Blessings by William Shawcross Pdf

One of the revelations of William Shawcross's official biography of the Queen Mother was her private correspondence. Indeed the Sunday Times described her letters as 'wonderful ... brimful of liveliness and irreverence, steeliness and sweetness.' Queen Elizabeth was a prolific correspondent from her earliest childhood and her letters offer readers a vivid insight into the person behind the public face. They reveal - in her own words - the little girl writing to her family; the young woman who, eventually, accepted Prince Albert's proposal; the Duchess of York, embracing the public role demanded of her, on royal tours both at home and abroad. They reveal, too, her shock when she and her husband realized that he would become King, the dreadful toll exacted by the Second World War, culminating in the King's tragically early death, and her determination to find a role for herself during her long widowhood. Full of wit, acute observation and a deeply held sense of duty, Queen Elizabeth's letters offer a chronicle not only of her long life, but of the twentieth century.

Author : Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd
Publisher : Macmillan Pub Limited
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0333906438

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Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother by Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd Pdf

This handsome tribute to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother comes with the backing of Britain's best-selling newspaper, The Daily Telegraph. Stunning photographs celebrate the Queen Mother's life through a century of dynamic change while in the text, Hugh Massingberd perceptively contrasts the rosy cliched image of "the Queen Mum" with the reality of the much sharper and more sophisticated Queen Elizabeth. Through a series of deft and witty captions accompanying the splendid photographs, the story of Her Majesty's private and public life unfolds in a unique memorial to Britain's best-loved royal.

Author : Dorothy Laird
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Queens
ISBN : UCAL:B3727706

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Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother by Dorothy Laird Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Longford
Publisher : Academy Chicago Publishers, Limited
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1986-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0586056033

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The Queen Mother by Elizabeth Longford Pdf

Author : William Shawcross
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Queens
ISBN : 1616643153

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The Queen Mother by William Shawcross Pdf

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 course 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.

Author : Nicholas Courtney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Queens
ISBN : NWU:35556029400645

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Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother by Nicholas Courtney Pdf

Author : Outlet,Trevor Hall,Rh Value Publishing
Publisher : Crescent
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1987-08-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0517633485

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Queen Elizabeth by Outlet,Trevor Hall,Rh Value Publishing Pdf

Author : Ann Morrow
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Queens
ISBN : 0755106318

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Without Equal by Ann Morrow Pdf