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This book is alleged to be non fiction.........2007-08-09
and it is. But it is generic. It could be a fill in the blanks book. More often than not, the author has not gone from the particular to the general but rather the other way round. She employs inductive thinking.
For example - she takes all known facts about Edward IVs cildren and appliess them to Elizabeth in particular.
It's a gimmick and I don't like general fact that purports to be individualized. It is unfair to the reader who is seeking NEW information.
I gave up on it.
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A historical character whose life no novelist would ever have dared to write. A woman whose contemporaries portrayed her as a sorceress demands the attention of all who are interested in medieval and royal history
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Mothers In and Out of Power.......2007-09-05
Elizabeth Woodville was of good stock (despite the slander put about by her detractors). She was descended from Charlemagne on her mother's side; her father was a knight. She was married very young to the eldest son (John Grey) of another knight (who, like her father, had married up), and bore two sons before her husband was killed fighting on the Lancastrian side in the Wars of the Roses. When the new Yorkist King Edward IV traveled through the region consolidating new alliances with these old enemies, he saw the beautiful young widow and, legend has it, fell for her then and there. But perhaps his "falling in love" was hardly the romantic chance encounter it was made out to be afterwards. Edward's choice shook loose Warwick's and probably his mother's efforts to set his agenda. Elizabeth bore him ten children, including two sons who were murdered in the Tower after Edward died. Meanwhile the Yorkist nobility, abetted later by the Lancastrian Tudors, slandered Elizabeth and her family in terms republished even in this century. The story was an eye-opener about the power of slander in shaping enduring public opinion. Five hundred years later, I have a book in front of me published in 2002, by a respectable historian, which characterizes the king's marriage to Elizabeth as "ill-fated," and the Woodvilles as a "horde" of impoverished, grasping nobodies with nothing to offer. Apparently Edward IV did not share that opinion.
When Edward IV died, Elizabeth's luck ran out. Richard III seized power and clapped her boys in the Tower, and by autumn of 1483 she knew she would never be the mother of a king. But she didn't have ten royal pregnancies for nothing. After she knew her boys must be dead, she thought it would be a good idea if Richard married her daughter Elizabeth of York (a plan Richard was later obliged to repudiate). You have to be impressed by this woman in her situation who could still keep her eye on the ball. If she couldn't be the mother of a king, then she would be the mother of a queen. She did get her daughter Elizabeth of York on the throne, finally, as wife of Henry VII. It was actually Henry's mother Margaret Beaufort who sought the alliance, which Elizabeth must have thought was appropriate.
It may have been partly the old contempt for the Beauforts' illegitimacy (Baldwin could have done a much better job explaining who this Henry Tudor was); but Elizabeth probably believed that it was her daughter's royal blood that legitimatized Henry's claim to the throne. The honor was all on his side.
Henry did not act very honored. On the contrary, it seemed he had married one of Edward IV's daughters for no other purpose than to eclipse them. A year and a-half after Bosworth and the birth of their first son, Henry hadn't agreed to his wife's coronation yet. He would not have it said he ruled by right of his wife. And he neither needed nor listened to anybody's counsel but his mother's. So much for being the power behind the throne. Elizabeth was completely outclassed.
In early 1487 Elizabeth took some part, it is not known exactly what it was, in the serious Simnel conspiracy leading to what Baldwin calls the Last Battle of the Wars of the Roses. Her object, Baldwin thinks, was to get rid of the king and his mother, then marry her daughter to her Yorkist cousin Warwick. Then she would be the power behind the throne for sure. She must have been clumsy or she trusted someone she shouldn't have, because Henry learned her part in it. What a disaster for her in this, her last throw of the dice as Baldwin calls it. Henry stripped Elizabeth of all her lands and income, and confined her to an abbey for the remainder of her life where she could cause no more mischief. Her role in the conspiracy, and the roles of other people Henry may have trusted, were covered up because it would not have helped the stability of his reign right then. The former Queen of England, once so powerful and beloved, died in poverty during the reign of a man and his mother who must have loathed her. She was buried without ceremony. Nobody important came to the requiem mass.
She tried!
It just goes to show: Medieval noblewomen liked power as much as men did. A wife of the king might influence him (but not if her mother-in-law was still around; witness Elizabeth of York), but she really came into her own as the widowed mother of a king. That is, of course, if the child listened to her. According to Michael Jones in Bosworth 1485, Edward IV's mother Cecily was so enraged when her son thumbed his nose at her by marrying Elizabeth instead of the French king's sister-in-law, she usurped the queen's apartments and attempted to have him overthrown in favor of his younger brother Clarence by claiming he was illegitimate! This was clearly a mother angry that she didn't have more influence. (Odd that Baldwin does not mention this; perhaps he regarded it as gossip meant to denigrate Elizabeth.) Skeptics argue that Elizabeth was unlikely to do anything to injure her own daughter and grandson, but look. Medieval parents regarded children as personal assets. They created them; they expected to use them. (Wait a minute. I know a mother just like that today.) Elizabeth had other young unmarried daughters with royal blood, too, don't forget. Like Cecily, she might have thought of herself as a sort of kingmaker. She didn't like the present situation. She was frustrated. She thought she could do better. The example of Cecily's willingness to skewer one disobedient son because she had others in stock suggests something about human nature that transcends the cultural ideal. Or perhaps power corrupts. Maybe mothers like Margaret of Anjou and Margaret Beaufort were selflessly committed to one royal child because one was all they had--there was no other avenue to power for them. Yes, I can believe that of Elizabeth. And there's no reason to disapprove of her any more than we should presume to disapprove of Henry and his mother, who used her.
My main complaint about the book is the writing style. A reviewer here said the book was readable but not compelling. Funny, I thought it was the other way around. Or rather, it was intrinsically compelling despite the writing. Baldwin seems allergic to the short, declarative sentence. Paragraphs are often too long. Key points may be buried two or three thousand words deep. Consider this mess of a sentence: "It was the more ascetic, gentler monarchs, like Henry III, Richard II, and Henry VI, who either lost their thrones or came close to losing them, and it can be argued, quite reasonably, that if Richard III had not possessed a comparable streak of determination in his character he would not have found government easy even if he had won the Battle of Bosworth." Huh?
Fascinating times, a real and very human woman. Wish it were a better read.
An fascinating lady.......2007-06-17
A complex book about a complex woman in complex times. I knew little about Elizabeth Woodville until I discovered this book but after digesting the detailed material within, you are completely briefed on the person, the extended family, the politics and the times. The tragedy of her children, the ruthlessness of power around her etc, can only mean you conclude the book with great sympathy for Woodville. I commend this book despite the rather dull prose (at times)
Great Biography.......2007-02-21
I've always been looking for a book on Elizabeth Woodville. History hasn't been too kind to her yet she was the mother of the princes in the tower. She went from being a widow with two children among the English class to being Queen of England. Its so rare for that to happen. You can understand the secrecy surrounding the marriage in the beginning because the other nobles weren't thrilled to say the least and most likely tried to find ways to keep the marriage from happening unfortunately that would later be used to declare her marriage invalid. How horrible it must have been to lose her husband, have her marriage invalid and lose her two sons. At least she got to live long enough to see her daughter become queen.
A fun biography of an interesting woman.......2004-01-02
My primary interest in history--or at least that period in which I did my MA--has always been in the ancient near east. Over the past four or five years, however, I have been branching out more. Of late in particular I have been filling in what I learned of English history in a survey course I took years ago. I've read some on Richard III, on Edward I, II, III, and IV and on Edward the Black Prince. I've followed up on King Harold and his "difference of opinion" with William of Normandy, etc.
In reading some of these works, I find that I've learned only tangentially anything about the women of these episodes. When I came upon a reference to David Baldwin's book on Elizabeth Woodville Mother of the Princes in the Tower, my curiosity was immediately aroused, and I decided to find out something more about one of these women in the background, to see what part they actually played in the drama of their times.
Like most people interested in English history, I know the Shakespeare Richard III and the story of the little princes in the tower. Having read some of the history of the period, I realized too that the queen was not well liked by many of the more influential and established nobility of her husband's realm. These individuals tended to depict her as a small town upstart who capitalized on her personal beauty to better all of the members of her family at the expense of the "legitimate" nobility. This set the stage for a very shaky government; one tested more than once by the disaffected, and created the drama of the Tower and of Richard III. Baldwin gets at the character of Elizabeth by looking at the extant documents of the time and by analyzing how the woman fit into the on going politics of her husband's reign rather than by following the contemporary accounts circulated by the woman's detractors.
I was particularly fascinated by the degree to which each phase of English history links naturally with its predecessor and its successor--not that this is particularly surprising perhaps. Some of the histories of other countries have far more discrete hiatuses between phases. This flow is particularly noticeable when it is viewed from the perspective of Elizabeth Woodville and her family. The royal genetics of the period was definitely convoluted. It was amazing how interrelated were not only the branches of the royal family with one another but with some of the nobility as well. (Looking at other genealogies reveals the degree to which the nobility of most of Europe were interrelated.) That "six degrees of separation" thing was definitely in operation here and pushed to the limit. It left the possibility of Elizabeth's either mending the rift between the houses of Lancaster and York, which is what the author theorizes was the intention of Edward IV, or exacerbating it. It also left a lot of people with a potential claim on the throne and with incentive to cause trouble--which is how the rift began in the first place. The chain continues into the future through the connection of the Tudors with the ultimate patriarch, Edward III. Elizabeth, her daughter--mother of Henry VIII--and her two sons help complete that link. Fascinating.
FOR THOSE WRITING PAPERS IN HISTORY, HISTRIOGRAPHY, SOCIOLOGY, POLITICAL SCIENCES, WOMENS' STUDIES: One might look at how documents like accounts can be used to clarify lifestyles (clothing, expenses for servants, etc), status, power structures, etc or to write a biography such as this one. One might write a paper on the use of power by women in history, on how women acquire power within a society or at what the study of women and other "background" figures reveal about events during a particular episode in time. One might compare less favorable studies of Elizabeth Woodville with this one to determine to what extent the author's assessment of her reign is accurate. One might look at the story of the princes in the tower as it is told in Shakespeare--or Josephine Tey's novel Daughter of Time--and as it is presented in Baldwin's biography of Elizabeth to determine who might actually have committed the murders.
A fun biography of an interesting woman
Worth reading, but not compelling.......2003-12-10
Readers with an interest in the Wars of the Roses will find this book about Elizabeth Woodville, Edward IV's Queen, and the mother of the "Princes in the Tower", perfectly readable, but not extremely compelling. This may be due to the relative scarcity of reliable, original source information about her. (I think much of the contemporary information about her is speculation about how she, a widow from the gentry class with two children, managed to attract and win the King, suggesting that witchcraft was involved.) My sense is the book may go a little far in "white-washing" her historical reputation as grasping, selfish, proud and haughty. I just don't think the sketchy information the author was able to marshall was convincing enough to really establish what kind of person Elizabeth actually was, one way or other.
Also, regarding the earlier reviewer's suggestion that Elizabeth's negative reputation owes to the Tudors "looking back in anger", it might pay to remember that Henry VIII's grandmother was, in fact, Elizabeth Woodville (his mother's mother), so I'm not certain how much her historical reputation is a result of this. I think it actually owes a lot more to her contemporary Yorkist rivals, who were threatened by her very unexpected emergence onto the scene and potential power she could wield as the King's wife, than to the later Tudors, a dynasty Elizabeth's own daughter founded when she married Henry Tudor.
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Ingrid Seward, a prolific writer on the English royal family, was the last journalist to interview Princess Diana before her death in August 1997. In this intriguing book, Seward gives a worm's-eye view of Diana's trouble-plagued life, layered with episodes of betrayal and illness, and she accords full sympathy to the minor noblewoman who became "the people's princess." She is still more sympathetic to Diana's sometime nemesis Queen Elizabeth II, who, in Seward's account, labored endlessly to preserve the dignity of the monarchy in the face of a family that behaved in anything but a dignified manner.
Rising above the caricatures that color the popular press, Seward depicts a queen who tried her best to accommodate Diana--who was, it seems, never shy in voicing her displeasures and had an undeniable flair for recruiting the media in her cause, all the while protesting the press's intrusion into a fairy-tale life that "turned into a Gothic nightmare." Diana's insistence on airing her dirty laundry in public was bound to irritate the ever-sensitive queen, but more, Seward writes, "in her demands for love and sympathy, she gave self-fulfillment precedence over duty"--and for Elizabeth, dereliction of duty was the greatest possible sin one could commit. Their relationship could end only in tears; and so it did, taking much of the English public's good will toward the royal family with it.
Sometimes racy and breathless, but intelligent all the same, Seward's account enlarges our understanding of the internal dynamics of the modern court while delivering no end of scandalous news, just as a palace chronicle should. --Gregory McNamee
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As the editor of Majesty magazine, Ingrid Seward has developed professional and personal relationships with the royal family. We discover a surprising portrait of the English monarch and the princess, contradicting what the press has previously reported: a fragile Diana battling an unfeeling mother-in-law. We learn that the Queen tried to welcome Diana into the royal family and that Di failed to grasp the hand of friendship. From the princess herself we hear details of what went on between Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles. And we glimpse much more about the inner workings of the extended royal family.
Entertaining and factual, The Queen & Di stands apart and above the countless, often inaccurate, accounts published to date about Diana. Ingrid Seward reveals for the first time the true relationship between two important women of the 20th century.
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Tabloid Trash.......2007-08-25
Seward should be ashamed of herself for this enormously biased gossip rag. It's quite easy to trash the Princess now... after all, the dead have a much more difficult time defending themselves.
Palace Propoganda.......2004-12-31
This book is definitely biased in favor of the House of Windsor. It appears that the author thought it prudent to align herself with the powers that be rather than report an accurate historical account. There are too many contradictary sources to believe that this is an accurate portrayal of the relationship between the Queen and Princess Diana.
Sad..........2004-03-23
I find Ms. Seward's writing to be painful to read. For an editor of Majesty magazine, I expected her to have class in her manner of writing and respect in her depiction of the British royal family. She would have been well suited as a writer for the tabloids instead. Her manner of retelling is very gossipy, and biased. She can't seem to help but include her spiteful opinions of the late princess. I find her to be a very disrespectful person to be writing such a book. If you are looking for historical background or a respectful account of the Queen and the late princess, this is not the book to read.
The Knowledge of a Misunderstood Relationship.......2003-09-18
If you are like half of the population and interested in all the gossip about the House of Windsor and the late Princess of Wales, then this book should be one that you should read. This book is about the relationship between Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Diana. This book, to my belief, is a piece of evidence on why we as the public should respect Her Majesty, and why we should understand what their relationship is truly about. The book describes Diana's first State duty with the entire Royal Family in November 1984 at the State Opening of Parliament. Diana was having her hair being done for the event and insisted that she wore her hair up knowing that it was not long enough and looked different. The next day Diana's hair was on the headlines not the Queen, on which should have been a day of her publicity. This was the beginning of the popularity contest between these two women.
The author Ingrid Seward, is editor of Majesty magazine. She has written many books about the Royal Family that has kept her in the bestsellers list for twelve years.
This book all and all will give you a better knowledge about both women and will teach you the inside story of what happened behind the palace walls of two remarkable women and there relationship that is so widely known and questioned by the public.
God Save the Queen!.......2003-09-15
Thank you, Ms. Seward for writing a fair and reasonable book. It's gratifying to read a work that illuminates how hard our queen tried to accomodate the late Princess of Wales and what a truly lovely person she is. Elizabeth II is a great queen -- history will bear this out -- and I think we often take her far too much for granted. God bless and keep her!
As a British subject currently residing the states, I remain astonished at the rabid interest our royal family holds for Americans.
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Royal Racing: The Queen and Queen Mother's Sporting Life
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The Queen and Queen Mother's abiding passion for horse racing has endured through impressive triumphs and crushing disappointments. This thoroughly researched account of their achievements is fully illustrated and rich in anecdotes from key figures of the racing world.
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Elizabeth, The Queen Mother
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ASIN: 0099476622
Release Date: 2006-06-06 |
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An authoritative and affectionate biography of the Late Queen Mother.
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, assesses 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
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Good Biography, but .............2007-02-25
This biography of the much loved late Queen Mother started off impressively, but as other reviewers have commented after the funeral of George VI the quality suffers somewhat from too many facts being delivered in a disorganised manner. Also, the author's blatant anti Labour and Tony Blair bias detracts from the narrative.
Finally, as an Aussie I wasn't impressed by the misspelling of QANTAS airways on a couple of occasions (memo to Author - there is no U in Qantas)
Vapid. Doesn't add to your knowledge of her........2006-08-26
My view is the opposite of another reviewer's: I thought the first half (up until George VI dies) even worse than the second half. Both halves are poorly organized (sentences that don't belong in the same paragraph; paragraphs that don't relate to one another; passages that should be in another chapter) and sometimes have errors and repetitions, and you don't learn much about her interactions with other family members. There's some about her relationship with her daughter Margaret and grandson Charles, less on that with the Queen, and very little on her dealings with the others - not even the supposed reprimand to Andrew, Sarah, Edward, and Anne for It's a Royal Knockout.
The first half has far too many pages full of: On Day 1 she went to A, where B, C, D, and E were also guests (biographical footnotes on all four), and she wore X. Then on Day 2, she was at G for lunch and H. D, I, J, H, and M (biographical footnotes on the new ones) were there. She wore N. Then she went to P....
In the whole book, there were a few interesting bits, but nothing significant I haven't read in other books on the family.
Nice family trees and pictures, but they aren't enough unless you get the book for a great discount.
Great book about a greatly loved Queen.......2006-01-14
Hugo Vickers book about the Her Late Majesty, The Queen Mother was well done. It gave you some insights about Queen Mother's life and some information that was not as well known. I would reccomend the book for anyone who is a fan of British Royalty or anyone who is a student of History.
Half Excellent, the other half...could have been better........2006-01-04
I really enjoyed the first half of the book, however, once the author got to the end of King George VI's furneral...well, he could have done a better job.
A gracious Queen graciously remembered.......2005-12-10
The Booker prize-winning author Arundhati Roy asserted that, "Selfish writers leave you with the memory of their book. Generous writers leave you with the memory of the world they evoked." Hugo Vickers is, indeed, a generous writer. It is inconceivable that his account will not become the standard one not only for all accounts of the life of the late Queen Elizabeth, mother of the current Queen, but of the era in which she flourished. His research is meticulous yet never pedantic, his prose approachable without being condescending, and his reporting of incidents throughout the life of the Queen are interesting and humorous without stooping to the level of common gossip. There is no question that she was the making of her husband, King George VI, who was ill-prepared to assume the throne when his selfish and immature brother abdicated. A lesser woman would have carried a chip on her shoulder so large and heavy that she would have been forced to her knees under its weight. Yet Queen Elizabeth was the one who, through her dedication and sheer hard work, brought her husband's subjects eagerly and willingly not to her feet but to her side. Shawcross, the chosen biographer of the late Queen, might just as well pack up and go home. No one will be able to match Vickers' work. He has done justice to a great lady and we are greatly in his debt.
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Queens Elizabeth the Queen Mother: Chronicle of a Remarkable Life 1900--2000
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This enchanting book is a comprehensive and highly visual account of the fascinating life story of the "Queen Mum." It opens with a beautiful 16--page photo album and goes on to chart the Queen Mother's life from 1900 to the lead--up to her 100th birthday. Chronological summaries cover national and international events, while the Queen Mother's own story is told in depth in a lively newspaper style. The articles combine with a wealth of photographic material to present an unforgettable account of an extraordinary life. A 16--page photo album, including photos by royal photographer Norman Parkinson, illustrates themes in the Queen Mother's life. Chronological summaries cover major national and international events and put the Queen Mother's life into historical context. Fascinating and informative text follows every important development, every birth, marriage, death, and formal occasion within the Royal Family over the past century. More than 350 photographs and 60,000 words give an authoritative and in--depth account of the Queen Mother's life.
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- A photo portrait of Britain's most beloved Royal
- Great subject, mediocre verbiage
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Elizabeth: The Queen Mother (Twentieth Century Life)
Grania Forbes
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A lavish celebration of Britain's most beloved Royal, offering a fascinating look at the events of 20th-century Britain as well as an endearing portrait of the Queen Mother herself. Featuring 200 photographs.
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A photo portrait of Britain's most beloved Royal.......2003-01-06
This new edition of Elizabeth: The Queen Mother, a classic biography which provides a photo portrait of Britain's most beloved Royal, and which blends in a history of modern Britain in the process, provides a new text and new photos bringing her life into to modern times, and covers her recent death as well. Fans of the British Royalty in general, and the Royal Queen of Britain in particular, will relish this display and history.
Great subject, mediocre verbiage.......2000-07-31
Elizabeth The Queen Mother by Grania Forbes offers an array of photographs that are fun, but the writing is wretched. The author is one of these writers who begins every third sentence with However. And that gets really tedious, a sign of an insecure and inept writer. While there are some fine photos which cover, naturally, the entire 20th century (the subject was born in 1900 and still lives!) their chronology in this book is immensely flawed, as if seemingly by a mixmaster. You are led to believe it's chronological, then you are fooled to the point of aggravation.
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- Full-page color photos accompany this survey of her life
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Debrett's Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (Debretts)
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Full-page color photos accompany this survey of her life.......2003-08-08
This historical survey of the Queen Mother of Great Britain is intended as a tribute to her life as much as a biographical coverage, and covers her various challenges and contributions as the queen. Many full-page color photos accompany this survey of her life, making for a fine coffee table edition or as an anglophile keepsake.
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Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: The Life That Spanned a Century, 1900-2002 (Illustrated London News)
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The Illustrated London News, the oldest illustrated magazine of social and historical record, is better placed than anyone to reflect not just on the Queen Mother's remarkable and long life but on the tumultuous times she lived through. They have been researching and developing this book for nearly thirty years, putting together a specially commissioned text with exclusive photographs from their archives. Chapters on the Queen Mother's life are interspersed with a photographic record of the century, from the first flight of the Zeppelin to splitting the atom, from the Hillary/Tensing conquest of Everest to the Kennedy assassination and September 11. This commemorative work will be updated to include photos taken at the ceremonial procession to commemorate the lying in state of the Queen Mum and The Illustrated London News will be allowed full access to Westminster Abbey to take photographs of the funeral.
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- Gardner's Art Through the Ages (with ArtStudy Student CD-ROM and InfoTrac )
- Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through Spain and Its Secret Past
- Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith
- Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance (American Empire Project)
- History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)
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- City River of Voices
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- 2005 Miller Gaap Complete Library
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