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They reveal the little gin writing teasing notes to her siblings and the young woman who, after a long courtship and two refusals, accepted Prince Albert's proposal. We see her delight in her beloved daughters, and her very real shock when she and her husband realized that he would become King following the abdication of Edward VIII. We see, too, the dreadful toll exacted by the Second World War, which culminated in the King's tragically early death in 1952, and then her determination to find a new role for herself during the long years of widowhood.

The official and definitive biography of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: consort of King George VI, mother of Queen Elizabeth II, grandmother of Prince Charles, and the most beloved British monarch of the twentieth century.

Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon—the ninth of the Earl of Strathmore’s ten children—was born on August 4, 1900, and, certainly, no one could have imagined that her long life (she died in 2002) would come to reflect a changing nation over the course of an entire century. Vividly detailed, written with unrestricted access to her personal papers, letters, and diaries, this candid royal biography by William Shawcross is also a singular history of Britain in the twentieth century.