Counting One's Blessing. The Selected Letters Of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: As New
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2012
Edition: First Edition

Description: 666 pages. Ex-Library. (only one small stamp on page edges). Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in As new condition throughout. The only exception are some notes on inside front and back covers.

Publishers Description: One of the great revelations of William Shawcrosss official biography was the Queen Mothers private correspondence. Indeed, the Sunday Times described her letters as "wonderful... brimful of liveliness and irreverence, steeliness and sweetness." Now, drawing on the vast wealth of material in the Royal Archives, at Glamis Castle, and elsewhere, Shawcross has put together a selection of those letters. A prolific correspondent from her earliest childhood to the very end of her life, her letters offer readers a vivid insight into the person behind the public face. Full of wit, hilarity, acute observation and a deeply held sense of duty, Queen Elizabeths letters constitute a chronicle both of her long life and of the twentieth century.

ISBN: 9780230754966