Do Let’s Have Another Drink The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother【電子書籍】[ Gareth Russell ]

＜p＞＜strong＞A ＜em＞Times＜/em＞ Best Book on the Royal Family of the Year 2022＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞This is a biography of the Queen Mother with all the dull bits stripped out.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞When told that Lady Mountbatten was being buried at sea, the Queen Mother replied cheerfully. ‘Dear old Edwina, she always did like to make a splash!’＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞During her lifetime, the Queen Mother was as famous for her clever quips, pointed observations and dry-as-a-Martini delivery style as she was for being a member of the Royal Family. She was also famed for her fondness for ‘drinky-poos’ ? usually a gin and Dubonnet or three. Now, ＜em＞Do Let’s Have Another Drink＜/em＞ recounts 101 biographical vignettes ? one for each year of her long, remarkable life, including her coming-of-age during World War I, the abdication of her brother-in-law, the truth about her tragic nieces and her relationship with her two daughters over half a century of widowhood.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The book is a skimming-stone biog．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る