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Counting One's Blessings: The Collected Letters of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

by William Shawcross
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780330535779
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Pan Macmillan
  • Publisher Imprint: Pan Macmillan
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  • Pages: 688
  • Original Price: GBP 20.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: Unabridged ed
  • Item Weight: 758 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Royalty

One of the revelations of William Shawcross's official biography of the Queen Mother was her private correspondence. Indeed the Sunday Times described her letters as 'wonderful ... brimful of liveliness and irreverence, steeliness and sweetness.'

Queen Elizabeth was a prolific correspondent from her earliest childhood and her letters offer readers a vivid insight into the person behind the public face. They reveal - in her own words - the little girl writing to her family; the young woman who, eventually, accepted Prince Albert's proposal; the Duchess of York, embracing the public role demanded of her, on royal tours both at home and abroad. They reveal, too, her shock when she and her husband realized that he would become King, the dreadful toll exacted by the Second World War, culminating in the King's tragically early death, and her determination to find a role for herself during her long widowhood. Full of wit, acute observation and a deeply held sense of duty, Queen Elizabeth's letters offer a chronicle not only of her long life, but of the twentieth century.

William Shawcross became a writer after leaving University College Oxford in 1968. He was in Czechoslovakia during the Soviet occupation; this inspired his first book, a biography of Alexander Dubček, the Czechoslovak leader, which was published in 1970. Since then he has written and travelled widely. In 1995 he wrote the BBC Television series "Monarchy." In 2002 his BBC Television series and book, "Queen and Country," celebrated the Queen's Golden Jubilee and examined the changing face of Britain during her reign. He is also the author of "Justice and the Enemy: Nuremberg, 9/11 and the Trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed" (2012). He lives in England.

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