Gareth Armstrong
Author
Language
English
Description
The official biography of Queen Mary, grandmother of the current Queen, originally commissioned in 1959-with a new foreword by Hugo Vickers.
When Queen Mary died in 1953, James Pope-Hennessy was commissioned to write an official biography of her-unusual for a Queen Consort. Queen Mary's life, contrary to popular belief, was essentially dramatic, and she played a far more important and influential role in the affairs of the British monarchy than her...