Counting One's Blessings : The Selected Letters of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
Publication details: United Kingdom; Pan Macmillan; 2012Description: 666 Pages; PaperbackISBN:- 9780330535779
- 941.08 SHA
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Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 | Karachi In Store | 941.08 ELI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Withdrawn Not For Loan | Book Bazaar | PKLC000980 | ||
Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 | Lahore In Store | 941.08 ELI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Withdrawn | For Sale | PKLC008569 |
Queen Elizabeth was a prolific correspondent from her earliest childhood and her letters offer readers a vivid insight into the person behind the public face. They reveal - in her own words - the little girl writing to her family; the young woman who, eventually, accepted Prince Albert's proposal; the Duchess of York, embracing the public role demanded of her, on royal tours both at home and abroad. They reveal, too, her shock when she and her husband realized that he would become King, the dreadful toll exacted by the Second World War, culminating in the King's tragically early death, and her determination to find a role for herself during her long widowhood. Full of wit, acute observation and a deeply held sense of duty, Queen Elizabeth's letters offer a chronicle not only of her long life, but of the twentieth century.
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