George V: Never a Dull Moment
Jane Ridley
| Издательство: | Harper |
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ISBN: 0062567497
Год издания: 2022
Язык: Английский
Hardcover, 560 pages
A. N. WILSON, THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (UK)
"Apart from being a wonderful biography – indeed, the best royal biography to be published since James Pope-Hennessy's Queen Mary (1959) – this book makes a revelatory distinction between two modes of being ... George V's life, and that of his wife Queen Mary (Princess May of Teck) are, by contrast, rivetingly interesting when seen through Ridley's lens. You yearn for every little detail ... Ridley does not try to whitewash George the Ordinary, nor to absolve him from cowardice, for example when, on the advice of his private secretary Lord Stamfordham, he declined to offer the Romanovs asylum in Britain after the Revolution ... Ridley does not disappoint those addicts who wish to reread their favourite king's oft-quoted mots ... this book sheds an entirely new light on both George V and his consort ... Jane Ridley persuades us that their tactful handling of the many crises of the reign paved the way for the stable constitutional monarchy that persists to this day."
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