ELIZABETH,THE QUEEN MOTHER
Book ID/图书代码： 00200006B05230
English Summary/英文概要： Harold Nicolson called her ’the greatest Queen since Cleopatra’, while Cecil Beaton called her ’a marshmallow made on a welding machine’. Stephen Tennant said: ’She looked everything that she was not: gentle, gullible, tenderness mingled with dispassionate serenity, cool, well-bred, remote. Behind this veil she schemed and vacillated, hard as nails.’ Who was she? The Queen Mother’s story has not yet been properly told. This was partly due to her long life, and the difficulty that always exists when a biography of a living person is attempted, partly because she was a queen - and the real person gets hidden behind the perceived image - and partly because she is hard to pin down. From her privileged aristocratic childhood, to the abdication and the problems with Diana - this book questions how she faced her challenges and crises, assess her role, how powerful she was, and how she coped. This is a candid, personal portrait of one of Britain’s most loved national treasures. Hugo Vickers, an acknowledged expert on the House of Windsor, has spent seventeen years researching this book, and observed the Queen Mother in public and private over a period of forty years.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： Harold Nicolson说她是自埃及女王克娄巴特拉以来最伟大的女王;她是王室中最受欢迎的人物。而她的魅力不仅在于不衰的微笑，更在于可爱的真实。通过媒体的报道，人们发现王太后与普通人是如此的相像--她固执、热爱生活、好热闹、花钱大手大脚、喜欢饮烈性酒、参加聚会和赌马。虽然有些并不是优点，但人们似乎并不在意。她是谁？她就是伊丽莎白女王太后，历史上对这位王太后的描述从来都有些偏差。这也许是因为写她的传记有一定的困难，因为她是王太后，高高在上，很难记录下的一举一动。本书从伊丽莎白女王太后的贵族出身，她的退位讲到她和戴安娜之间的矛盾，书中为您解读这位伟大的女王是如何面对挑战和困境的，如何评估她的角色，她的权威到底有多大。书中公正地描绘了这位为英国民众最爱戴的王太后的形象。著名的专家作者Hugo Vickers花费了近17年为这本书进行调研，观察四十年来王太后在公众面前和私下里的生活。
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About the Author/作者介绍： Hugo Vickers出生于1951年，在Eton and Strasbourg大学接受教育。他的作品包括Alice, Princess Andrew of Greece; Gladys, Duchess of Marlborough等, 以及The Kiss获得1996年Stern Silver Pen非小说类奖。他是皇室家族研究的著名专家，经常出现在电视节目中，他在全世界进行过他的演讲。Hugo Vickers已婚，育有两儿一女。
Hugo Vickers was born in 1951 and educated at Eton and Strasbourg University. His books include Alice, Princess Andrew of Greece; Gladys, Duchess of Marlborough; Cecil Beaton; Vivien Leigh; Loving Garbo; Royal Orders; The Private World of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor; and The Kiss, which won the 1996 Stern Silver Pen for Non-fiction. He is an acknowledged expert on the royal family, appears regularly on television and has lectured all over the world. Hugo Vickers is married and has two sons and a daughter.
Format:HARDCOVER ILLUSTRATED
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