This is a biography of the Queen Mother with all the dull bits stripped out.
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!’
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Bestselling author Tom Bower reveals the making of a monarch – King Charles III
A Radio 4 Book of the Week, June 2021
‘Highly readable … deserves to take its place among the first rank of modern royal biographies’ Daily Mail
‘The narrative is as suspenseful as any thriller. Truly, an excellent read’ Lynn Barber, Sunday Times
The Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller
‘THE ROYAL BOOK OF THE YEAR’ Daily Mail
THIS CRISIS IS AS BIG AS THE ABDICATION – SAYS LACEY, HISTORICAL ADVISOR TO THE CROWN.
A Financial Times Book Best Book of the Year 2020
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year 2020
The gripping, untold story of how Saudi Arabia's secretive and mercurial new ruler rose to power.
'A brilliant study of a brilliant woman' LUCY WORSLEY
History has forgotten Caroline of Ansbach, yet in her lifetime she was compared frequently to Elizabeth I and considered by some as ‘the cleverest queen consort Britain ever had’.
Henry Stuart’s life is the last great forgotten Jacobean tale. Shadowed by the gravity of the Thirty Years’ War and the huge changes taking place across Europe in seventeenth-century society, economy, politics and empire, his life was visually and verbally gorgeous.