The Last Intellectual
Rosemary Hill: The Queen Mother’s Letters, 6 December 2012
Counting One’s Blessings: The Selected Letters of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
edited by William Shawcross.
Macmillan, 666 pp., £25, October 2012,978 0 230 75496 6 Show More
edited by William Shawcross.
Macmillan, 666 pp., £25, October 2012,
“... little more than turning Glamis and the family home in Hertfordshire into hospitals. She was too young for serious nursing duties, and her letters dwell on jolly card games with patients and their propensity to fall in love with her and occasionally she with them. As her teens went on the horror increased with her capacity to understand it. In September 1915 ... ”