Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, 1900-2002

2002
Biography & Autobiography

Author: Arthur Bousfield,Garry Toffoli

Publisher: Dundurn

ISBN: 1550023918

Category: Biography & Autobiography

Page: 184

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Elizabeth provided inspired leadership for a society faced with the stark prospect of destruction in a war to save the world.

The Queen Mother

2012-04-24
Biography & Autobiography

Author: Lady Colin Campbell

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

ISBN: 125001896X

Category: Biography & Autobiography

Page: 512

View: 5800


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.

The Queen Mother

1842

Author: Louisa Stuart Costello

Publisher: N.A

ISBN: N.A

Category:

Page: N.A

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Elizabeth, The Queen Mother

2013-03-31
Biography & Autobiography

Author: Hugo Vickers

Publisher: Random House

ISBN: 1448150728

Category: Biography & Autobiography

Page: 656

View: 5472


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.

Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

2009-10-02
Biography & Autobiography

Author: William Shawcross

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

ISBN: 0230748104

Category: Biography & Autobiography

Page: 1120

View: 6767


Written with complete access to the Queen Mother’s personal letters and diaries, William Shawcross's riveting biography is the truly definitive account of this remarkable woman, whose life spanned the twentieth century. Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes Lyon,the youngest daughter of the Earl of Strathmore, was born on 4 August 1900. Drawing on her private correspondence and other unpublished material from the Royal Archives, William Shawcross vividly reveals the witty girl who endeared herself to soldiers convalescing at Glamis in the First World War; the assured young Duchess of York; the Queen, at last feeling able to look the East End in the face at the height of the Blitz; the Queen Mother, representing the nation at home and abroad throughout her long widowhood. 'This splendid biograpy captures something of the warm glow that she brought to every event and encounter. It also reveals a deeper and more interesting character, forged by good sense, love of country, duty, humour and an instinct for what is right. This is a wonderful book, authoritative, frank and entertaining' Daily Telegraph

The Queen Mother and Her Century

2000-07
Biography & Autobiography

Author: Arthur Bousfield,Garry Toffoli

Publisher: Dundurn

ISBN: 1550023497

Category: Biography & Autobiography

Page: 176

View: 4692


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.

Elizabeth the Queen Mother Paper Dolls

2001-02-01
Juvenile Nonfiction

Author: Tom Tierney

Publisher: Courier Corporation

ISBN: 9780486417714

Category: Juvenile Nonfiction

Page: 32

View: 7592


Four figures depict Her Majesty at various periods in her long life (along with one of her husband in full military dress). 22 costumes include robes of state for her 1937 coronation; a salmon pink gown worn for a ceremony honoring her 100th birthday in August 2000; and many other stylish outfits.
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