Counting One's Blessings
Author | : William Shawcross |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 1509 |
Release | : 2012-11-27 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781466827745 |
ISBN-13 | : 1466827742 |
Rating | : 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Download or read book Counting One's Blessings written by William Shawcross and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 1509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.