The Queen MotherThe official and definitive biography of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, the most beloved British monarch of the twentieth century. Consort of King George VI, mother of Queen Elizabeth II, and grandmother of Prince Charles, Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon—the ninth of the Earl of Strathmore’s ten children—was born on August 4, 1900, and, certainly, no one could have imagined that her long life (she died in 2002) would come to reflect a changing nation over the course of an entire century. Vividly detailed, written with unrestricted access to her personal papers, letters, and diaries, this candid royal biography by William Shawcross is also a singular history of Britain in the twentieth century. |
Contents
15 | |
FOUR | 131 |
A ROYAL WEDDING 1923 | 152 |
BIRTH OF A PRINCESS 19251927 | 242 |
EIGHT | 256 |
AN AUSTRALASIAN ASSIGNMENT 1927 | 266 |
NINE | 290 |
THE LONG WEEKEND 19271936 | 297 |
WAR TO PEACE 19451947 | 601 |
SIXTEEN | 623 |
SEVENTEEN | 636 |
QUEEN MOTHER 19521955 | 675 |
NINETEEN | 730 |
QUEEN VOYAGER 19611967 | 801 |
UNDER SCRUTINY 19681981 | 837 |
TWENTYTHREE | 868 |
ABDICATION 19361937 | 354 |
ACROSS THE ATLANTIC 1939 | 461 |
THIRTEEN | 490 |
THE QUEEN AT WAR 19391941 | 499 |
FOURTEEN | 543 |
YEARS LIKE GREAT BLACK OXEN 19421945 | 567 |
FIFTEEN | 593 |
TWENTYFOUR | 915 |
EPILOGUE | 939 |
Family Trees | 945 |
DUCHESS OF YORK 19231924 | 956 |
NOTES | 965 |
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY | 1054 |
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