03096cam a2200349 4500 564984450 TxAuBib 20220428120000.0 ||||||s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781415966563 1415966567 faa02ec1-845a-4ee1-b51d-3f46be11d2dc OverDrive (Reserve ID) 241681 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Shawcross, William. The Queen Mother [Libby] : The Official Biography. Books on Tape, 2009. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 269MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 269MB. Biography & Autobiography. History. Women's Studies. Nonfiction. HTML:The official and definitive biography of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: consort of King George VI, mother of Queen Elizabeth II, grandmother of Prince Charles—and the most beloved British monarch of the twentieth century.<br /> Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon—the ninth of the Earl of Strathmore’s ten children—was born on August 4, 1900, and, certainly, no one could have imagined that her long life (she died in 2002) would come to reflect a changing nation over the ourse of an entire century. Now, William Shawcross—given unrestricted access to the Queen Mother’s personal papers, letters, and diaries—gives us a portrait of unprecedented vividness and detail. Here is the girl who helped convalescing soldiers during the First World War . . . the young Duchess of York helping her reluctant husband assume the throne when his brother abdicated . . . the Queen refusing to take refuge from the bombing of London, risking her own life to instill courage and hope in others who were living through the Blitz . . . the dowager Queen—the last Edwardian, the charming survivor of a long-lost era—representing her nation at home and abroad . . . the matriarch of the Royal Family and “the nation’s best-loved grandmother.”<br /> A revelatory royal biography that is, as well, a singular history of Britain in the twentieth century. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-06-26 20:00:03. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/1191-1/241681-TheQueenMother.wma Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/241681-TheQueenMother.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=FAA02EC1-845A-4EE1-B51D-3F46BE11D2DC&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/1191-1/241681-TheQueenMother.wma Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/241681-TheQueenMother.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=FAA02EC1-845A-4EE1-B51D-3F46BE11D2DC&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)