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,
“... Elizabeth, equally determined in her way, had to bypass a number of unattractive facts. The king was a martinet on bad terms with all of his sons and the straitlaced, almost literally unbending Queen Mary a formidable mother-in-law, yet neither stood a chance against her flood tide of affection. Other references in the letters make it clear that she ... ”