<DIV><br>''A scary portrait of put-upon servants and potty aristos ... this is arguably the most riotously funny volume published this year''<br>Max Hastings, <I>Sunday Times</I><br><br>''One of the funniest, most eccentric books of the year''<br>Craig Brown, <I>Mail on Sunday</I><br><br>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.<br><br>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, Th
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<P><B>The official biography of Queen Mary, grandmother of the current Queen, originally commissioned in 1959 - with a new foreword by Hugo Vickers.</B><br><br>When Queen Mary died in 1953, James Pope-Hennessy was commissioned...
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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...
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