{"product_id":"elizabeth-the-queen-mother-by-hugo-vickers","title":"Elizabeth, the Queen Mother by Hugo Vickers","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn authoritative and affectionate biography of the Queen Mother by a highly respected Royal biographer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarold 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHugo Vickers, an acknowledged expert on the House of Windsor, has spent seventeen years researching this book, and observed the Queen Mother in public and private over a period of forty years.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43778934112330,"sku":"6840f","price":10.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/6840f.jpg?v=1783302014","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/elizabeth-the-queen-mother-by-hugo-vickers","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}