Do Let¿s Have Another Drink Av Gareth Russell

Do Let¿s Have Another Drink Av Gareth Russell

A Times Best Book on the Royal Family of the Year 2022This is a biography of the Queen Mother with all the dull bits stripped out.When told that Lady Mountbatten was being buried at sea, the Queen Mother replied cheerfully. ¿Dear old Edwina, she always did like to make a splash!¿During her lifetime, the Queen Mother was as fa......
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A Times Best Book on the Royal Family of the Year 2022This is a biography of the Queen Mother with all the dull bits stripped out.When told that Lady Mountbatten was being buried at sea, the Queen Mother replied cheerfully. ¿Dear old Edwina, she always did like to make a splash!¿During her lifetime, the Queen Mother was as famous for her clever quips, pointed observations and dry-as-a-Martini delivery style as she was for being a member of the Royal Family. She was also famed for her fondness for ¿drinky-poos¿ ¿ usually a gin and Dubonnet or three. Now, Do Let¿s Have Another Drink recounts 101 biographical vignettes ¿ one for each year of her long, remarkable life, including her coming-of-age during World War I, the abdication of her brother-in-law, the truth about her tragic nieces and her relationship with her two daughters over half a century of widowhood.The book is a skimming-stone biography ¿ the story of a life without the boring bits ¿ and a travel guide to a world that no long
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A Times Best Book on the Royal Family of the Year 2022 This is a biography of the Queen Mother with all the dull bits stripped out. When told that Lady Mountbatten was being buried at sea, the Queen Mother replied cheerfully. 'Dear old Edwina, she always did like to make a splash!' During her lifetime, the Queen Mother was as famous for her clever quips, pointed observations and dry-as-a-Martini delivery style as she was for being a member of the Royal Family.She was also famed for her fondness for 'drinky-poos' - usually a gin and Dubonnet or three. Now, Do Let's Have Another Drink recounts 101 biographical vignettes - one for each year of her long, remarkable life, including her coming-of-age during World War I, the abdication of her brother-in-law, the truth about her tragic nieces and her relationship with her two daughters over half a century of widowhood. The book is a skimming-stone biography - the story of a life without the boring bits - and a travel guide to a world that no longer exists.Stepping into the Queen Mother's rarefied universe is a little like falling through the looking glass. The book rightly celebrates her sense of humour but also explores her enmities and feuds, including the truth about her behaviour towards Wallis Simpson, Nerissa Bowes-Lyon and Diana, Princess of Wales. For fans of The Crown and featuring new revelations, never before published, and colourful anecdotes about the woman the high society photographer Cecil Beaton once described as 'a marshmallow made on a welding machine', Do Let's Have Another Drink is a delightful celebration of one of the most consistently popular members of the Royal Family.

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Forførende biografi: Do Let’s Have Another Drink Av Gareth Russell

Oppdag det fascinerende livet til Queen Mother gjennom den sprudlende og informative biografien Do Let’s Have Another Drink Av Gareth Russell. Med humor og eleganse gir Russell leserne en smakebit på en verden som for mange er ukjent. Dette er ikke bare en biografi, men en reise gjennom et liv fylt med både glitter og bekymringer.

Unike detaljer om dronningens liv

  • 101 biografiske vignetter: Hver vignett representerer et år i hennes bemerkelsesverdige liv.
  • Humor og feider: En dyptpløyende utforskning av hennes humor og personlige konflikter, inkludert interaksjoner med kjente figurer som Wallis Simpson og Diana, prinsesse av Wales.
  • Historisk kontekst: Opplev hennes ungdom under første verdenskrig og de dramatiske hendelsene rundt abdikasjonen av hennes svoger.

Hvorfor lese Do Let’s Have Another Drink?

For alle som har en forkjærlighet for det britiske kongehuset, er denne boken et must. Med nye avsløringer og fargerike anekdoter, gir den en frisk vri på historien relatert til en av de mest elskede medlemmene av kongefamilien. Russell gjør det lett å leve seg inn i et liv som var like glamorøst som det var komplisert.

Do Let’s Have Another Drink er ikke bare en biografi; det er et vindu inn i en tidfylt verden som nå for lengst har gått ut på dato. Opplev dronningens unike perspektiv og sett henne i et nytt lys. Denne boken vil både underholde og informere, og etterlate leseren med en dypere forståelse av et ikon.

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