{"product_id":"9780008542610","title":"Do Let’s Have Another Drink : The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Russell, Gareth \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 13\/10\/2022,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 240 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780008542610,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Times Best Book on the Royal Family of the Year 2022\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  This is a biography of the Queen Mother with all the dull bits stripped out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  When told that Lady Mountbatten was being buried at sea, the Queen Mother replied cheerfully. ‘Dear old Edwina, she always did like to make a splash!’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  During her lifetime, the Queen Mother was as famous for her clever quips, pointed observations and dry-as-a-Martini delivery style as she was for being a member of the Royal Family. She was also famed for her fondness for ‘drinky-poos’ – usually a gin and Dubonnet or three. Now, Do Let’s Have Another Drink recounts 101 biographical vignettes – one for each year of her long, remarkable life, including her coming-of-age during World War I, the abdication of her brother-in-law, the truth about her tragic nieces and her relationship with her two daughters over half a century of widowhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The book is a skimming-stone biography – the story of a life without the boring bits – and a travel guide to a world that no longer exists. Stepping into the Queen Mother’s rarefied universe is a little like falling through the looking glass. The book rightly celebrates her sense of humour but also explores her enmities and feuds, including the truth about her behaviour towards Wallis Simpson, Nerissa Bowes-Lyon and Diana, Princess of Wales.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e For fans of The Crown and featuring new revelations, never before published, and colourful anecdotes about the woman the high society photographer Cecil Beaton once described as ‘a marshmallow made on a welding machine’, Do Let’s Have Another Drink is a delightful celebration of one of the most consistently popular members of the Royal Family.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40761636880428,"sku":"9780008542610","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780008542610_6623dc9a-ce9c-4eda-bc1d-9e3d84781aa2.jpg?v=1759677597","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.pro\/products\/9780008542610","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}