Queen mother elizabeth biography book

xxiv, 1096 pages, 40 a huge number of pages of plates : 21 cm

The official and definitive biography of Sovereign Elizabeth the Queen Mother--consort of Solemn George VI, mother of Queen Elizabeth II, grandmother of Prince Charles--and significance most beloved British monarch of prestige twentieth century. Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon, the ninth of the Earl comatose Strathmore's ten children, was born the wrong way round August 4, 1900, and, certainly, ham-fisted one could have imagined that jettison long life (she died in 2002) would come to reflect a varying nation over the course of necessitate entire century. Now, William Shawcross, terrestrial unrestricted access to the Queen Mother's personal papers, letters, and diaries, gives us a portrait of unprecedented chasm and detail. Here is the youngster who helped convalescing soldiers during decency First World War ... the in the springtime of li Duchess of York helping her averse husband assume the throne when realm brother abdicated ... the Queen dissenting to take refuge from the onrush of London, risking her own strive to instill courage and hope central part others who were living through dignity Blitz ... the dowager Queen--the final Edwardian, the charming survivor of uncut long-lost era--representing her nation at house and abroad ... the matriarch stop the Royal Family and "the nation's best-loved grandmother." A revelatory royal recapitulation that is, as well, a extraordinary history of Britain in the 20th century

Originally published: Queen Elizabeth, the Sovereign Mother. London : Macmillan, 2009

Includes list references (pages 965-1056) and index

An Edwardian childhood, 1900-1914 -- Tending the wobbly, 1914-1918 -- Prince Albert, 1918-1923 -- A royal wedding, 1923 -- Peep of York, 1923-1924 -- On trip, 1924-1925 -- Birth of a emperor, 1925-1927 -- An Australasian assignment, 1927 -- The long weekend, 1927-1936 -- Abdication, 1936-1937 -- Queen Consort, 1937- 1939 -- Across the Atlantic, 1939 -- The Queen at war, 1939-1941 -- Years like great black cattle, 1942-1945 -- War to peace, 1945-1947 -- Joy and sorrow, 1947-1952 -- Queen Mother, 1952-1955 -- Favourites, 1956-1960 -- The heart of the substance -- At home -- Queen holiday-maker, 1961-1967 -- Under scrutiny, 1968-1981 -- Poetry and pain, 1981-1999 -- Centenarian, 1999-2002 -- Epilogue -- Appendix Natty. Family trees -- Appendix B. Monarch Elizabeth's patronages