Elizabeth, the Queen Mother - Vickers Hugo
Elizabeth, the Queen Mother - Vickers Hugo Harold Nicolson called her 'the greatest Queen since Cleopatra', while Cecil Beaton called her 'a marshmallow made on a welding machine'. Behind this veil…
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Elizabeth, the Queen Mother - Vickers Hugo
Harold Nicolson called her 'the greatest Queen since Cleopatra', while Cecil Beaton called her 'a marshmallow made on a welding machine'. Behind this veil she schemed and vacillated, hard as nails.' Who was she? Stephen Tennant said: 'She looked everything that she was not: gentle, gullible, tenderness mingled with dispassionate serenity, cool, well-bred, remote.
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. The Queen Mother's story has not yet been properly told. From her privileged aristocratic childhood, to the Abdication and the problems with Diana - this book questions how she faced her challenges and crises, assesses 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.
Coronation Vickers Hugo
The Queen Mother
The Queen Mother
Behind Closed Doors Vickers Hugo
Queen Elizabeth
Queen Elizabeth
Queen Elizabeth
The Times Queen Elizabeth II
Queen Elizabeth II
RMS Queen Elizabeth
Queen Elizabeth I