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"* 'Vickers tells this story with a sure touch and an expertise that only he can command. He brings the unfortunate Alice to life and engages the reader's sympathy to a remarkable degree.' Sunday Times * 'A masterpiece' A. N. Wilson, Country Life"
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An authoritative and affectionate biography of the Late Queen Mother.
Harold Nicolson called her “the greatest Queen since Cleopatra,” while Cecil Beaton called her “a marshmallow made on a welding machine.” Stephen Tennant said: “She looked everything that she was not: gentle, gullible, tenderness mingled with dispassionate serenity, cool, well-bred, remote. Behind this veil she schemed and vacillated, hard as nails.” Who was she?
The Queen Mother’s story has not yet been properly told. This was partly due to her long life, and the difficulty that always exists when a biography of a living person is attempted, partly because she was a queen — and the real person gets hidden behind the perceived image — and partly because she is hard to pin down. From her privileged aristocratic childhood, to the abdication and the problems with Diana, this book questions how she faced her challenges and crises, assesses her role, how powerful she was, and how she coped. This is a candid, personal portrait of one of Britain’s most loved national treasures
Harold Nicolson called her “the greatest Queen since Cleopatra,” while Cecil Beaton called her “a marshmallow made on a welding machine.” Stephen Tennant said: “She looked everything that she was not: gentle, gullible, tenderness mingled with dispassionate serenity, cool, well-bred, remote. Behind this veil she schemed and vacillated, hard as nails.” Who was she?
The Queen Mother’s story has not yet been properly told. This was partly due to her long life, and the difficulty that always exists when a biography of a living person is attempted, partly because she was a queen — and the real person gets hidden behind the perceived image — and partly because she is hard to pin down. From her privileged aristocratic childhood, to the abdication and the problems with Diana, this book questions how she faced her challenges and crises, assesses her role, how powerful she was, and how she coped. This is a candid, personal portrait of one of Britain’s most loved national treasures
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The greatest Queen Consort ever- it seems that this is the final verdict of Hugo Vickers on the Queen Mother, even tough is wording is a bit more careful (page 503). Well does his biography actually support this quite sweeping statement?
The biography remembers graciously a gracious lady; however that does not make the Queen Mother the greatest queen consort ever.
I believe it is pretty hard to write the very first full biography on the life of a personality more or less every one of us remembers and has formed an opinion already. The first biography sets the standards and the ground on which future biographies will be measured. And here Hugo Vickers has done a quite miserable job.
On the positive side: The book is well very well written and a highly enjoyable to read. There was never ever a moment where I wanted to stop reading further. One learns a hell of a lot about her life; her family, the Royal Family and the changing of times.
Alas, there is a huge but to this all. I was missing the passages on the political importance of the Queen Mother during her time as consort and during her time as Queen Mother. As consort one kind of knows that she was the "most dangerous woman in Britain" as Hitler was suppose to say, keeping up spirits and being the power behind the throne. But there is not much about this in the book. The Queen Mother did not like to be described as such as she properly felt it would diminish the achievements of The King, her beloved husband. How was really the "working relationship" between King and Queen, did she influence decisions, if yes how far. Here Vickers is really shy and not knowledgeable. The passages on the abdication and the Windsor's, the Princess Margaret's affaires or later on the younger royals are less then satisfactory. Something is simply missing and one gets the impression that she was simply a by-stander. Does one really believe this? Maybe she was but than she could hardly be the greatest consort ever. I wished he would have given more concrete thought about this and spending less energy and pages on the Queen Mother's outfits and color schemes of her dresses. This is all a bit to "loyal" and keeping with the myth. Maybe Vickers is a bit to close to her and bit too admiring. He is at least honest about his association with the Queen Mother, but I am not sure that his assessment of his own level of objectivity is correct.
All in all, it is a book one doesn not really need to read. But I believe this is not the last word on the Queen Mother and future biographies will have to be written in order complete the picture of the Queen Mother. The Queen Mother was an extraordinary personality and to capture this one needs an extraordinary biography.
The biography remembers graciously a gracious lady; however that does not make the Queen Mother the greatest queen consort ever.
I believe it is pretty hard to write the very first full biography on the life of a personality more or less every one of us remembers and has formed an opinion already. The first biography sets the standards and the ground on which future biographies will be measured. And here Hugo Vickers has done a quite miserable job.
On the positive side: The book is well very well written and a highly enjoyable to read. There was never ever a moment where I wanted to stop reading further. One learns a hell of a lot about her life; her family, the Royal Family and the changing of times.
Alas, there is a huge but to this all. I was missing the passages on the political importance of the Queen Mother during her time as consort and during her time as Queen Mother. As consort one kind of knows that she was the "most dangerous woman in Britain" as Hitler was suppose to say, keeping up spirits and being the power behind the throne. But there is not much about this in the book. The Queen Mother did not like to be described as such as she properly felt it would diminish the achievements of The King, her beloved husband. How was really the "working relationship" between King and Queen, did she influence decisions, if yes how far. Here Vickers is really shy and not knowledgeable. The passages on the abdication and the Windsor's, the Princess Margaret's affaires or later on the younger royals are less then satisfactory. Something is simply missing and one gets the impression that she was simply a by-stander. Does one really believe this? Maybe she was but than she could hardly be the greatest consort ever. I wished he would have given more concrete thought about this and spending less energy and pages on the Queen Mother's outfits and color schemes of her dresses. This is all a bit to "loyal" and keeping with the myth. Maybe Vickers is a bit to close to her and bit too admiring. He is at least honest about his association with the Queen Mother, but I am not sure that his assessment of his own level of objectivity is correct.
All in all, it is a book one doesn not really need to read. But I believe this is not the last word on the Queen Mother and future biographies will have to be written in order complete the picture of the Queen Mother. The Queen Mother was an extraordinary personality and to capture this one needs an extraordinary biography.
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A gracious Queen graciously remembered
9. Dezember 2005
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The Booker prize-winning author Arundhati Roy asserted that, "Selfish writers leave you with the memory of their book. Generous writers leave you with the memory of the world they evoked." Hugo Vickers is, indeed, a generous writer. It is inconceivable that his account will not become the standard one not only for all accounts of the life of the late Queen Elizabeth, mother of the current Queen, but of the era in which she flourished. His research is meticulous yet never pedantic, his prose approachable without being condescending, and his reporting of incidents throughout the life of the Queen are interesting and humorous without stooping to the level of common gossip. There is no question that she was the making of her husband, King George VI, who was ill-prepared to assume the throne when his selfish and immature brother abdicated. A lesser woman would have carried a chip on her shoulder so large and heavy that she would have been forced to her knees under its weight. Yet Queen Elizabeth was the one who, through her dedication and sheer hard work, brought her husband's subjects eagerly and willingly not to her feet but to her side. Shawcross, the chosen biographer of the late Queen, might just as well pack up and go home. No one will be able to match Vickers' work. He has done justice to a great lady and we are greatly in his debt.
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Correct book title: How Cecil Beaton viewed the Queen Mother
7. Juli 2008
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After reading Vicker's excellent bio of Princess Alice [Prince Philip's mother] I looked forward to reading his take on the Queen Mother. Sadly this is a pretty awful book. He quotes ad nausea from the diaries of Cecil Beaton--so often in fact that at one point I threw the book across the room in exasperation!!! It seems he tried to make he Beaton research work for two books!! He also, ridiculously, worked in references to Vivien Leigh--another former subject of his!! But, where else these days can you find a book that uses the phrase "post-pradinal" twice in one volume!
In spite of this it does provide a little valuable information on the Queen Mother's support of the arts and does help to clear up the mystery of Marion Crawford's awful book "The Little Princesses." We know know why that book was so uttery inane--it was written not by Miss Crawford, but by a scheme pair of editors at an American women's magazine. The process by which they duped Miss Crawford, aka "Crawfie" out of both her memoirs and her privileged position at Court makes fascinating reading. Poor old Crawfie! For years witless biographers of Queen Elizabeth and her late sister Princess Margaret relied on this sugary send up to explain their childhood. Since it was largely re-written by the editors I would hope no one would ever again "rely" on it. Surely as fictionalized as various parts of the memoirs of the Duchess of Windsor [and the end of a "King's Story"--the memoirs of Edward VIII.]
In spite of this it does provide a little valuable information on the Queen Mother's support of the arts and does help to clear up the mystery of Marion Crawford's awful book "The Little Princesses." We know know why that book was so uttery inane--it was written not by Miss Crawford, but by a scheme pair of editors at an American women's magazine. The process by which they duped Miss Crawford, aka "Crawfie" out of both her memoirs and her privileged position at Court makes fascinating reading. Poor old Crawfie! For years witless biographers of Queen Elizabeth and her late sister Princess Margaret relied on this sugary send up to explain their childhood. Since it was largely re-written by the editors I would hope no one would ever again "rely" on it. Surely as fictionalized as various parts of the memoirs of the Duchess of Windsor [and the end of a "King's Story"--the memoirs of Edward VIII.]
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Vapid. Doesn't add to your knowledge of her.
25. August 2006
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My view is the opposite of another reviewer's: I thought the first half (up until George VI dies) even worse than the second half. Both halves are poorly organized (sentences that don't belong in the same paragraph; paragraphs that don't relate to one another; passages that should be in another chapter) and sometimes have errors and repetitions, and you don't learn much about her interactions with other family members. There's some about her relationship with her daughter Margaret and grandson Charles, less on that with the Queen, and very little on her dealings with the others - not even the supposed reprimand to Andrew, Sarah, Edward, and Anne for It's a Royal Knockout.
The first half has far too many pages full of: On Day 1 she went to A, where B, C, D, and E were also guests (biographical footnotes on all four), and she wore X. Then on Day 2, she was at G for lunch and H. D, I, J, H, and M (biographical footnotes on the new ones) were there. She wore N. Then she went to P....
In the whole book, there were a few interesting bits, but nothing significant I haven't read in other books on the family.
Nice family trees and pictures, but they aren't enough unless you get the book for a great discount.
The first half has far too many pages full of: On Day 1 she went to A, where B, C, D, and E were also guests (biographical footnotes on all four), and she wore X. Then on Day 2, she was at G for lunch and H. D, I, J, H, and M (biographical footnotes on the new ones) were there. She wore N. Then she went to P....
In the whole book, there were a few interesting bits, but nothing significant I haven't read in other books on the family.
Nice family trees and pictures, but they aren't enough unless you get the book for a great discount.
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