Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother by Hugh Massingberd

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother by Hugh Massingberd

A beautifully illustrated celebration of a remarkable life. This handsome tribute to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother - consort to George Vl, mother to Elizabeth II and an indomitable figure in her own right - comes with the backing of Britain's bestselling newspaper, The Daily Telegraph. Stunning photographs celebrate the Queen Mother's life year by year through a century of dynamic change while the text, by one of the Telegraph's leading writers, is authoritative and readable. In an incisive introduction, Hugh Massingberd describes the development of the young Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon into the royal bride who gave her husband, the Duke of York, the strength to take on the burden of kingship after the abdication of Edward VIII, and then worked magnificently at his side during the Second World War. 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.

Hugh Massingberd was born at Cookham Dean, Berkshire, in 1946. His father was in the Colonial Service, and later worked for the BBC; his mother was a schoolmistress. He boarded at Port Regis Preparatory School in Dorset, and Harrow. After an unsatisfactory stint as a solicitor's articled clerk in Lincoln's Inn, he gained a place to read History at Cambridge, only to pull out before matriculating. He then drifted into publishing and journalism, where he has made desultory attempts to keep afloat for the last thirty-five years. Altogether he has written or edited some forty books, including works of genealogical reference, studies of royalty and social history as well as a series of illustrated volumes covering palaces, grand hotels and country houses, great and small. His five volumes of collections from the Obituaries page of The Daily Telegraph (which he created in 1986 and edited for eight years), and a further volume covering The Very Best of the Daily Telegraph Books of Obituaries were all published by Macmillan. The fifth volume was shortlisted for the inaugural Bollinger Everyman Prize for Comic Writing in 2000. In addition to being Obituaries Editor of the Daily Telegraph, he was also that newspaper's Heritage columnist and TV critic. He has two children from his first marriage and, following a sojourn in his ancestral county of Lincolnshire, now lives with his second wife in London. He has listed his recreations as gluttony, sloth, watching cricket at the Oval and hanging round stage-doors and unsaddling enclosures.

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ISBN 13	9780333906439
ISBN 10	0333906438
Title	Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
Author	Hugh Massingberd
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Pan Macmillan
Year published	2002-04-02
Number of pages	128
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