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Queen Mary 1867-1953 - Softcover

Pope-Hennessy, James

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Synopsis

As official biographer, the author had access to private papers which helped unfold the moving story of Princess May of Teck's impoverished childhood, her significant reign and her old age as the much admired Queen Dowager; she saw her fiancee, husband and three sons die, and another abdicate before her own death in 1953.

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About the Author

James Pope-Hennessy was a writer of unusual range and beguilingly fluent style. He was born in 1916 and educated at Downside and Balliol College, Oxford. From 1947 to 1949 he was literary editor of The Spectator. By then, he had already decided that writing was his vocation, and for the rest of his life he earned his living by the pen. He died in 1974.

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