Do Let's Have Another Drink

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