
Counting One's Blessings
The Selected Letters of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
- 689 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
William Shawcross's official biography of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, published in September 2009, was a huge critical and commercial success.One of the great revelations of the book was Queen Elizabeth's insightful, witty private correspondence. Indeed,
The Sunday Times described her letters as "wonderful . . . brimful of liveliness and irreverence, steeliness and sweetness."
Now, in
Counting One's Blessings, Shawcross has put together a selection of her letters, drawing on the vast wealth of material in the Royal Archives and at Glamis Castle. Queen Elizabeth was a prolific correspondent, from her early childhood before World War I to the very end of her long life at the beginning of the twenty-first century, and her letters offer readers a vivid insight into the real person behind the public face.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Notice
- Contents
- Epigraphs
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Part One: Elizabeth
- Part Two: Duchess of York
- Part Three: Queen
- Part Four: Queen Mother
- Photographs
- Appendix: Family Trees
- Notes
- Index
- Also by William Shawcross
- Copyright