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Хьюго Викерс
Hugo Vickers
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Хьюго Викерс — новинки
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- 5 изданий на 2 языках
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Хьюго Викерс
The Sphinx. The Life of Gla...
ISBN: 9781529390742 Год издания: 2021 Издательство: Hodder Язык: Английский Аннотация
One of the most beautiful and brilliant women of her time, Gladys Deacon dazzled and puzzled the glittering social circles in which she moved.
Born in Paris to American parents in 1881, Gladys emerged from a traumatic childhood - her father having shot her mother's lover dead when Gladys was only eleven - to captivate and inspire some of the greatest literary and artistic names of the Belle Epoque. Marcel Proust wrote of her, ' -
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The Quest for Queen Mary
ISBN: 1529330610 Год издания: 2018 Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton Язык: Английский Аннотация
When James Pope-Hennessy began his work on Queen Mary's official biography, it opened the door to meetings with royalty, court members and retainers around Europe. The series of candid observations, secrets and indiscretions contained in his notes were to be kept private for 50 years. Now published in full for the first time and edited by the highly admired royal biographer Hugo Vickers, this is a riveting, often hilarious portrait of the eccentric aristocracy of a bygone age.
Giving much greater insight into Queen Mary than the official version, and including sharply observed encounters with, among others, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, the Duke of Gloucester, and a young Queen Elizabeth, The Quest for Queen Mary is set to be a classic of royal publishing. -
Хьюго Викерс
Behind Closed Doors
ISBN: 978-0099547228 Год издания: 2012 Издательство: Arrow Язык: Английский Аннотация
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Хьюго Викерс
Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
ISBN: 9780099476627 Год издания: 2005 Издательство: Arrow Язык: Английский Аннотация
Harold Nicolson called her 'the greatest Queen since Cleopatra', while Cecil Beaton called her 'a marshmallow made on a welding machine'. Stephen Tennant said: 'She looked everything that she was not: gentle, gullible, tenderness mingled with dispassionate serenity, cool, well-bred, remote. Behind this veil she schemed and vacillated, hard as nails.' Who was she?
The Queen Mother's story has not yet been properly told. This was partly due to her long life, and the difficulty that always exists when a biography of a living person is attempted, partly because she was a queen - and the real person gets hidden behind the perceived image - and partly because she is hard to pin down.
From her privileged aristocratic childhood, to the Abdication and the problems with Diana - this book questions how she faced her challenges and crises, assesses her role, how powerful she was, and how she coped. This is a candid, personal portrait of one of Britain's most loved national treasures.
Hugo Vickers, an acknowledged expert on the House of Windsor, has spent seventeen years researching this book, and observed the Queen Mother in public and private over a period of forty years. -
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Alice: Princess Andrew of G...
ISBN: 0312302398 Год издания: 2003 Издательство: St. Martin's Griffin Язык: Русский Аннотация
Vickers's portrait of Princess Alice of Greece reveals a woman whose life was both tragic and courageous. A great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria and mother to Prince Phillip of Great Britain, Alice had relatives in most of the royal houses of