The Quest for Queen Mary

Author:   James Pope-Hennessy ,  Hugo Vickers
Publisher:   Hodder & Stoughton
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9781529330618


Pages:   368
Publication Date:   13 June 2019
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   James Pope-Hennessy ,  Hugo Vickers
Publisher:   Hodder & Stoughton
Imprint:   Hodder Paperback
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.276kg
ISBN:  

9781529330618


ISBN 10:   1529330610
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   13 June 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Arguably the most riotously funny volume published this year - The Sunday Times A complete delight, conjuring up, with a few sharp strokes of the pen, a mad, exotic species from a world gone by . . . one of this year's funniest and most eccentric books - Mail on Sunday Intoxicating, frank and often hilarious anthology of interviews . . . what this fine book demonstrates with wit, candour, and unassailable force, is that royal persons are not at all like ordinary people - New York Review of Books Illuminating, intriguing and boundlessly entertaining - Country Life Superbly edited ... like all the best interviews, these are stories about the hunter circling his prey, and they reveal as much about the interviewer as his subject ... a splendid book - Spectator


'Superbly edited ... like all the best interviews, these are stories about the hunter circling his prey, and they reveal as much about the interviewer as his subject ... a splendid book' -- Jane Ridley * Spectator * 'Illuminating, intriguing and boundlessly entertaining' -- Martin Williams * Country Life * 'Intoxicating, frank and often hilarious anthology of interviews . . . what this fine book demonstrates with wit, candour, and unassailable force, is that royal persons are not at all like ordinary people' -- Alexander Waugh * New York Review of Books * 'A complete delight, conjuring up, with a few sharp strokes of the pen, a mad, exotic species from a world gone by . . . one of this year's funniest and most eccentric books' -- Craig Brown * Mail on Sunday * 'Arguably the most riotously funny volume published this year' -- Max Hastings * The Sunday Times *


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James Pope-Hennessy (Author) James Pope-Hennessy was a British biographer and travel writer. His books included London Fabric (for which he was awarded the Hawthornden Prize), Sins of the Fathers (an account of the Atlantic slave traffickers), Anthony Trollope and Queen Victoria at Windsor and Balmoral. He died in 1974. Hugo Vickers (Author) Hugo Vickers is a writer, lecturer and broadcaster, and an acknowledged expert on the British Royal Family. He has written biographies of the Queen Mother, Cecil Beaton, Vivien Leigh, Princess Andrew of Greece and the Duchess of Windsor. His book The Kiss won the 1996 Stern Silver Pen Award for Non-Fiction. His recent bestsellers have included The Quest For Queen Mary and The Sphinx - the life of Gladys, the Duchess of Marlborough.

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