Elizabeth: The Queen Mother : A Twentieth Century Life

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Summary: Great subject, mediocre verbiage
Review: Elizabeth The Queen Mother by Grania Forbes offers an array of photographs that are fun, but the writing is wretched. The author is one of these writers who begins every third sentence with However. And that gets really tedious, a sign of an insecure and inept writer. While there are some fine photos which cover, naturally, the entire 20th century (the subject was born in 1900 and still lives!) their chronology in this book is immensely flawed, as if seemingly by a mixmaster. You are led to believe it's chronological, then you are fooled to the point of aggravation.

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Summary: A photo portrait of Britain's most beloved Royal
Review: This new edition of Elizabeth: The Queen Mother, a classic biography which provides a photo portrait of Britain's most beloved Royal, and which blends in a history of modern Britain in the process, provides a new text and new photos bringing her life into to modern times, and covers her recent death as well. Fans of the British Royalty in general, and the Royal Queen of Britain in particular, will relish this display and history.