Elizabeth, the Queen Mother by Hugo Vickers
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.
A bulging plum pudding of insider snippets in the Cecil Beaton tradition, with camp and catty asides laced with worldly wisdom.. Vickers has done serious research in some important areas -- Robert Lacey * Sunday Times *
This is the first full-length biography - and who better to write it than Hugo Vickers... He is at home in the courtier's world and the circles which the Queen Mother inhabited... A very considerable achievement -- Sarah Bradford * Spectator *
A major new biography... Filled with telling anecdotes, it paints an affectionate yet revealing portrait * Daily Mail *
There is a small handful of British royal biographies which have acquired classic status... To this number must certainly be added Hugo Vickers's life of Elizabeth the Queen Mother. It is a truly magnificent book... Written with true authority. Hugo Vickers knows his subject through and through... A monumental record of why we all found the Queen Mother such a loveable and inspiring person, and why her pluck and her humour appealed to so wide a public -- A.N. Wilson * Country Life *
Witty and respectful … An overall portrait which may well be as close as anyone will ever get to the truth -- Craig Brown * Mail on Sunday *
This is the first full-length biography - and who better to write it than Hugo Vickers... He is at home in the courtier's world and the circles which the Queen Mother inhabited... A very considerable achievement -- Sarah Bradford * Spectator *
A major new biography... Filled with telling anecdotes, it paints an affectionate yet revealing portrait * Daily Mail *
There is a small handful of British royal biographies which have acquired classic status... To this number must certainly be added Hugo Vickers's life of Elizabeth the Queen Mother. It is a truly magnificent book... Written with true authority. Hugo Vickers knows his subject through and through... A monumental record of why we all found the Queen Mother such a loveable and inspiring person, and why her pluck and her humour appealed to so wide a public -- A.N. Wilson * Country Life *
Witty and respectful … An overall portrait which may well be as close as anyone will ever get to the truth -- Craig Brown * Mail on Sunday *
Hugo Vickers' books include Alice, Princess Andrew of Greece; Gladys, Duchess of Marlborough; Cecil Beaton; Vivien Leigh; Loving Garbo; Royal Orders; The Private World of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor; and The Kiss, which won the 1996 Stern Silver Pen for Non-fiction.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099476627 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099476622 |
| Title | Elizabeth, the Queen Mother |
| Author | Hugo Vickers |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cornerstone |
| Year published | 2006-05-04 |
| Number of pages | 704 |
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