The Last Intellectual
Rosemary Hill: The Queen Mother’s Letters, 6 December 2012
Counting One’s Blessings: The Selected Letters of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
edited by William Shawcross.
Macmillan, 666 pp., £25, October 2012,978 0 230 75496 6 Show More
edited by William Shawcross.
Macmillan, 666 pp., £25, October 2012,
“... Every generation gets the queenmother it desires, or deserves (to adapt Jacquetta Hawkes’s remark about Stonehenge). Seemingly impassive as any megalith, she waved and smiled through a century. From blushing bride to reluctant queen to the good old queen mum, she was respected, fawned on, laughed at or detested largely according to the prejudices of the beholder ... ”