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'The best royal biography I ever read'
– A.N. Wilson – Daily Telegraph
3 October 2005
'That it is a sympathetic rather than a sycophantic book is due to Vickers's forensic skills'
– Gillian Bowditch – The Scotsman
22 October 2005
'There is a small handful of British royal biographies which have acquired classic status - Lytton Strachey's Queen Victoria and James Pope-Hennessy's Queen Mary immediately come to mind. To this number must certainly be added Hugo Vickers's life of Elizabeth the Queen Mother. It is a truly magnificent book'
– A.N. Wilson - Country Life
20 October 2005
'Vickers has done serious research in some most important areas'
– Robert Lacey - Sunday Times
23 October 2005
'Vickers has provided a fitting memorial to a great woman'
– Mark Shenton - Sunday Express
23 October 2005
'Vickers has … been able to write a book that successfully incorporates the two opposing sides of the royal biographer. The finished product is by turns witty and respectful, pompous and mischievous, forelock-touching and back-stabbing, all these contradictory elements combining to form an overall portrait which may well be as close as anyone will ever get to the truth'
– Craig Brown - The Mail on Sunday
30 October 2005
'It's gripping, gloriously gossipy, beautifully detailed, fair but never fawning - arguably the best royal biography of recent years'
– Gyles Brandreth - Books of the Year - Sunday Telegraph
November 2005
'A book for all monarchists'
– Ray Connolly - Christmas Books - Daily Mail
9 December 2005
'Masterful … The portrait of the Queen Mother that he gives here is richly textured and judicious, and I doubt it will ever be bettered'
– Selina Hastings - Sunday Telegraph
13 November 2005
'A detailed account … of a long and interesting life and that is a very considerable achievement in itself'
– Sarah Bradford - The Spectator
22 October 2005
'The whole thing is as frothily entertaining as a Hartnell ballgown, the subject as tough as a whalebone corset'
– Iain Finlayson - Christmas Crackers - Culture Vulture Books
December 2005
'Vickers has written an admirable and continuously interesting biography'
– Alan Massie - Daily Telegraph
17 December 2005
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Elizabeth, The Queen Mother (2005)
Hardback (UK) 2005
Paperback (UK) 2006
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