Queen Mary 1867-1953 by James Pope-Hennessy
Her award winning biography by James Pope-Hennessy tells the moving story of her relatively impoverished childhood, her very significant reign and her old age as the much admired Queen Dowager who had seen her fiancee, husband and three sons die, and another abdicate, before her own death in 1953. Being an official biography it has all the advantages of access to private papers and people but without any of the restrictions. It is hugely readable, well informed and illuminating.
James Pope-Hennessy was a writer of unusual range and beguilingly fluent style. He was born in 1916 and educated at Downside and Balliol College, Oxford. From 1947 to 1949 he was literary editor of The Spectator. By then, he had already decided that writing was his vocation, and for the rest of his life he earned his living by the pen. He died in 1974.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781842120323 |
| ISBN 10 | 1842120328 |
| Title | Queen Mary 1867-1953 |
| Author | James Pope Hennessy |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Orion Publishing Co |
| Year published | 2000-07-20 |
| Number of pages | 696 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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