The Queen Mother And Her Century

Author : Arthur Bousfield,Garry Toffoli
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2000-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781550023497

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The Queen Mother and Her Century by Arthur Bousfield,Garry Toffoli Pdf

To honour the Queen Mother and mark the occasion of her 100th birthday, Dundurn Press is publishing a biography of this remarkable woman in words and pictures. Since her marriage to George VI, the Queen Mother has been a public figure who has 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." A Canadian perspective on a sovereign who created and cultivated a special relationship with Canada informs The Queen Mother and Her Century. The first of many tours of Canada, the Royal Tour of 1939, which gave Canadians our initial opportunity to experience the Queen Motherâe(tm)s personal magnetism first-hand, is described in detail, along with the many Canadian relationships the Queen Mother has formed since. The Queen Mother and Her Century is a wonderful album-sized (81/2âe x 11âe ) commemorative keepsake and makes a thoughtful gift for the many admirers of the Queen Mother. The text and 120 colour photographs are complemented by time bars, lists of the Queen Motherâe(tm)s official tours, associations the Queen Mother is patron of, places that are named after the Queen Mother, and the Royal Family tree.

Author : Arthur Bousfield,Garry Toffoli
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 44,7 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 : Robert Lacey
Publisher : Little Brown GBR
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0316852392

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The Queen Mother's Century by Robert Lacey Pdf

Elizabeth Bowes Lyon's celebrated life began on August 4th 1900 and has reflected ten dramatic decades of spectacle and change. Royal biographer Robert Lacey traces the Queen Mother's story through the milestones of our time - starting with her carefree childhood and using pictures to match her own history with that of the century. The future Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother became a public figure in 1923 with her engagement and marriage to 'Bertie', the shy and stammering Prince Albert, Duke of York, and it was her triumph to help transform her bashful husband into the brave and inspiring figure of King George VI. Through historic newspaper and magazine front pages (which record and recall the landmarks of our era), the epoch-making events of the century in which The Queen Motherp played a part are chronicled, and her role as mother, grandmother and great-grandmother in a rapidly changing world is also traced. She is a symbol of the best and bravest in Britain's recent past, but she is also a reminder of the enduring values to take in the next millennium - courage, civility, duty and grace.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Queens
ISBN : 1554880033

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Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, 1900-2002 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Hugh Massingbred
Publisher : Macmillan Pub Limited
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 033375980X

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Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother by Hugh Massingbred Pdf

Through a series of deft and witty captions accompanying the splendid photos, the story of Her Majesty's private and public life unfolds into an original, memorable and exquisitely-produced portrait of the 20th century's most charming survivor.

Author : William Shawcross
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 831 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781443407304

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Counting One's Blessings by William Shawcross Pdf

One of the great 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.” Now, drawing on the vast wealth of material in the Royal Archives and at Glamis Castle and elsewhere, William Shawcross has put together a selection of those letters, many of which have never before been published. A prolific correspondent from her earliest childhood to the very end of her life, her letters offer readers a vivid insight into the person behind the public face. They reveal—in her own words—the much-loved little girl who wrote teasing letters to her many siblings; the young woman who, after a long courtship and two refusals, accepted Prince Albert’s proposal. We see her as Duchess of York, bringing a sense of ease and fun into the public and private lives of the Royal Family. We see her delight in her beloved daughters, and her very real shock when she and her husband realized that he would become king following the abdication of Edward VIII. We see, too, the dreadful too exacted by the Second World War, which culminated in the king’s tragically early death in 1952, and then her determination, despite her grief, to find a new role for herself during the long years of widowhood.

Author : Grania Forbes
Publisher : Pavilion Books Limited
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1862054169

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Elizabeth, the Queen Mother by Grania Forbes Pdf

Originally published in 1999, an account of the life of Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, which is linked to the events of the twentieth century. It is illustrated with black and white and colour photographs and written by the author of MY DARLING BUFFY: THE EARLY LIFE OF THE QUEEN MOTHER.

Author : DK Publishing,Dorling Kindersley Publishing
Publisher : DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 44,8 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 : Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd
Publisher : Macmillan Pub Limited
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 40,9 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 : William Shawcross
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 1162 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307273314

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The Queen Mother by William Shawcross Pdf

The official and definitive biography of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, the most beloved British monarch of the twentieth century. Consort of King George VI, mother of Queen Elizabeth II, and grandmother of Prince Charles, 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. Vividly detailed, written with unrestricted access to her personal papers, letters, and diaries, this candid royal biography by William Shawcross is also a singular history of Britain in the twentieth century.

Author : Lord Howard De Walden,Trevor Hall
Publisher : Outlet
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Elizabeth, Queen Mother
ISBN : 0862835682

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Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother by Lord Howard De Walden,Trevor Hall Pdf

Discusses the Queen Mother's well-known public life and contribution to the country and the Commonwealth as well as her more private life as a wife, mother, grandmother and friend

Author : Hugo Vickers
Publisher : Hutchinson Radius
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015062864312

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Elizabeth by Hugo Vickers Pdf

Hugo Vickers investigates the character of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, in what is likely to be the most personal and authoritative account of her life ever published. This is the first major study of the Queen Mother to be published since her death.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1096 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Queens
ISBN : 1616643153

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The Queen Mother by Anonim 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 : Grania Forbes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Large print books
ISBN : 0786223103

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Elizabeth, the Queen Mother by Grania Forbes Pdf

Elizabeth, the Queen Mother is a celebration of the life of the nation''s most treasured Royal, providing a fascinating look at the events of the 20th century, as well as an endearing portrait of the Queen Mother herself.'

Author : Richard Wood,Sara Barton-Wood
Publisher : Raintree
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0817257152

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The Queen Mother by Richard Wood,Sara Barton-Wood Pdf

Chronicles the life of Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, from her birth in London in 1900 to her marriage in 1923 to Prince Albert, who was to become King George VI, to her hundredth birthday.