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The official biography of Queen Mary, grandmother of the current Queen, originally commissioned in 1959 - with a new foreword by Hugo Vickers. When Queen Mary died in 1953, James Pope-Hennessy was commissioned to write an official biography of her - unusual for a Queen Consort . Queen Mary's life, contrary to popular belief, was essentially dramatic, and she played a far more important and influential role in the affairs of the British monarchy than her public image might have otherwise suggested. Using material from the Royal Archives, private papers and Queen Mary's personal diaries and letters, Pope-Hennessy's biography was a remarkable portrait of a remarkable woman and received rave reviews across the press. Long out of print, this new edition of Queen Mary will be accompanied by a new foreword from royal biographer and writer Hugo Vickers.

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The official biography of Queen Mary, grandmother of the current queen, originally commissioned in 1959 - with a new foreword by Hugo Vickers.

When Queen Mary died in 1953, James Pope-Hennessy was commissioned to write an official biography of her - unusual for a queen consort. Queen Mary's life, contrary to popular belief, was essentially dramatic, and she played a far more important and influential role in the affairs of the British monarchy than her public image might have otherwise suggested. Using material from the Royal Archives, private papers, and Queen Mary's personal diaries and letters, Pope-Hennessy's biography was a remarkable portrait of a remarkable woman and received rave reviews across the press.

Long out of print, this new edition of Queen Mary will be accompanied by a new foreword from royal biographer and writer Hugo Vickers.

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• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 28

Drawn from the Royal archives, including Prince Albert’s voluminous correspondence, this brilliant and ambitious book offers fascinating never-before-known details about the man and his time. A superb match of biographer and subject, Prince Albert , at last, gives this important historical figure the reverence and recognition that is long overdue.

Well Worth Reading

• By Mark Harrington on 06-01-22

George and Marina

• Duke and Duchess of Kent

By: Christopher Warwick

• Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
• Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
• Overall 4 out of 5 stars 81
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 67
• Story 4 out of 5 stars 67

For eight brief years, before he was tragically killed in a mysterious air crash during the Second World War, Prince George, Duke of Kent, son of King George V and Queen Mary, and his beautiful wife, Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, were the British monarchy's - indeed, high society's - most glamorous royal couple; and as golden royal icons, they are still remembered.

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By: The Countess of Carnarvon

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• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 31
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 29

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• 3 out of 5 stars

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By: Helen Rappaport

• Narrated by: Xe Sands
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• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 875
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 775
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 777

They were the Princess Dianas of their day—perhaps the most photographed and talked about young royals of the early twentieth century. The four captivating Russian Grand Duchesses—Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia Romanov—were much admired for their happy dispositions, their looks, the clothes they wore and their privileged lifestyle. Over the years, the story of the four Romanov sisters and their tragic end in a basement at Ekaterinburg in 1918 has clouded our view of them, leading to a mass of sentimental and idealized hagiography.

Made you want to change the ending

• By MissSusie66 on 01-23-15

The Glitter and the Gold

• The American Duchess - In Her Own Words

By: Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan

• Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
• Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
• Overall 4 out of 5 stars 153
• Performance 3.5 out of 5 stars 136
• Story 4 out of 5 stars 137

Consuelo Vanderbilt was young, beautiful and the heir to a vast family fortune. She was also deeply in love with an American suitor when her mother chose instead for her to fulfill her social ambitions and marry an English Duke. Leaving her life in America, she came to England as the Duchess of Marlborough in 1895 and took up residence in her new home: Blenheim Palace. The ninth Duchess gives unique first-hand insight into life at the very pinnacle of English society in the Edwardian era.

Facinating Story- Terrible reading

• By Ashley D on 03-27-14

Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter

• A Biography of Princess Louise

By: Lucinda Hawksley

• Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 177
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 150
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 146

The secrets of Queen Victoria's sixth child, Princess Louise, may be destined to remain hidden forever. What was so dangerous about this artistic, tempestuous royal that her life has been documented more by rumor and gossip than hard facts? When Lucinda Hawksley started to investigate, often thwarted by inexplicable secrecy, she discovered a fascinating woman, modern before her time, whose story has been shielded for years from public view.

• 1 out of 5 stars

Incredibly Frustrating

• By JayOne on 01-16-20

Martha Washington

• An American Life

By: Patricia Brady

• Narrated by: Laural Merlington
• Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 83
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 64
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 65

With this revelatory and painstakingly researched book, Martha Washington , the invisible woman of American history, at last gets the biography she deserves. In place of the domestic frump of popular imagination, Patricia Brady resurrects the wealthy, attractive, and vivacious young widow who captivated the youthful George Washington. And even as it brings Martha Washington into sharper and more accurate focus, this sterling life sheds light on her marriage, her society, and the precedents she established for future First Ladies.

In-depth portrayal of a woman we all think we know

• By Clarence on 04-05-21

The Queen and Di

• The Untold Story

By: Ingrid Seward

• Narrated by: Emily Gray
• Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 138
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 119
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 122

The Manchester Evening News declared, it took "a biographer like Ingrid Seward to unleash a sober, challenging glimpse into the one relationship of such scrutiny." That relationship is the complex, troubled, and often turbulent association between Princess Diana and Queen Elizabeth.

Quite one sided.

• By Beatnik RN on 02-17-15

Those Wild Wyndhams

• Three Sisters at the Heart of Power

By: Claudia Renton

• Narrated by: Claudia Renton
• Length: 15 hrs and 2 mins
• Overall 4 out of 5 stars 118
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 104
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 104

They were confidantes to British prime ministers, poets, writers, and artists, their lives entwined with the most celebrated and scandalous figures of the day, from Oscar Wilde to Henry James. They were the lovers of great men - or men of great prominence... They lived in a world of luxurious excess, a world of splendor at 44 Belgrave Square and later at the even more vast Clouds, the exquisite Wiltshire house on 4,000 acres, the "house of the age", designed in 1876 by the visionary architect Philip Webb - the model for Henry James' The Spoils of Poynton .

SLOW START BUT STICK WITH THIS ONE

• By The Louligan on 01-22-19

Queen Victoria's Children

By: John Van der Kiste

• Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 63
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 56
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 55

Queen Victoria and Albert, the Prince Consort, had nine children, who, despite their very different characters, remained a close-knit family. Inevitably, as they married into European royal families, their loyalties were divided and their lives dominated by political controversy. This is not only the story of their lives in terms of world impact but also of personal achievements in their own right, individual contributions to public life in Britain and overseas, and as the children of Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort.

Was the narrator just too bored?

• By James Bruce on 03-16-18

• Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals

By: Gillian Gill

• Length: 18 hrs and 19 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 324
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 249
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 249

It was the most influential marriage of the 19th Century - and one of history’s most enduring love stories. Traditional biographies tell us that Queen Victoria inherited the throne as a naïve teenager, when the British Empire was at the height of its power, and seemed doomed to find failure as a monarch and misery as a woman until she married her German cousin Albert and accepted him as her lord and master. Now renowned chronicler Gillian Gill turns this familiar story on its head, revealing a strong, feisty queen, and a brilliant, fragile prince working together to build a family.

I found it extremely moving.

• By Cheryl on 08-07-09

Royal Sisters

• Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret
• Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 142
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 123
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 123

In Royal Sisters , Anne Edwards, author of the best-selling Vivien Leigh: A Biography and Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor , has written the first dual biography of Elizabeth, the princess who was to become Queen, and her younger sister, Margaret, who was to be her subject. From birth to maturity, they were the stuff of which dreams are made.

Where's The Rest?

• By Simone on 12-19-17

The Pursuit of Love

• Radlett and Montdore Trilogy Series, Book 1

By: Nancy Mitford

• Narrated by: Bessie Carter
• Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 93
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 86
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 86

Mitford's most enduringly popular novel, The Pursuit of Love , is a classic comedy about growing up and falling in love among the privileged and eccentric. Mitford modeled her characters on her own famously unconventional family. We are introduced to the Radletts through the eyes of their cousin, Fanny, who stays with them at Alconleigh, their Gloucestershire estate. Uncle Matthew is the blustering patriarch; Aunt Sadie is the vague but doting mother; and the seven Radlett children, despite the delights of their unusual childhood, are recklessly eager to grow up.

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• By Michael on 10-17-21

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Excellent! UPDATED review after 2nd listen.

Just listened to this Biography about Queen Mary for the second time. I did so for a reason. I had just finished "MATRIARCH" by Anne Edwards, which was very well done, but with a very few, shall we say, historical discrepancies. I still highly recommend her book as well. Ms. Edwards is a very thorough researcher as she knows her subjects well and is an excellent biographer in he own right. Her writing style keeps you interested in the subject throughout. I have read the majority, if not all of her books. HOWEVER......... ......... After listening to both books in very close succession, this Biography of Queen Mary is still the Best hands down! in my humble opinion, if you only want to choose one, you MUST choose this one, "QUEEN MARY" written by James Pope-Hennessey. Yes, this Biography was written in the 1950's, when it comes to posthumously written biographies, that should not matter, it's not like their life story is going to change! MOST Historians, Hugo Vicors for one, also say this is still the Best written biography period! Please do not pass this up because of when it was written! But it because it is, by far, the Best written biography about Queen Mary; also regarded as, if not the Best, by some historians, those same historians still considered "QUEEN MARY" by James Pope-Hennessey, as one of the best biographies of the Twentieth Century! I agree with them 100%, and my interest is historical biographies, I've read or listened to very many (over 100). So, PLEASE believe me when I say this is by far the Best written so far! A very close second is the biographies of "PETER THE GREAT" and "CATHERINE THE GREAT" by Edward K. Massie. Those were both great and very well written as well. Now you have two more just reads! LOL However, the audio version of "CATHERINE THE GREAT" was very well done, the audio of "PETER THE GREAT" was not so good, the narrator is horrid! UNFORTUNATELY, that is a must read. Best Factual & Interesting Biography Ever Written! No BS to make it entertaining! Imagine the actual truth and excellent writing can do that! What? Yes, it can be done, and this Biography proves that! This is not like the majority of biographies written, which are more often than not that writer's 'interpretations' of the information collected, the BS filled books that are loosely called biographies today. Now read an honest and real Biography here, Queen Mary by James Pope-Hennessey. Then you be the judge and see for yourself what a first rate biography truly is! This IS the BEST!!!!!! Extremely well written, based on her own writings in her diaries and correspondences with and about family, the writings of her husband George V' to her, which were so sweet and excerpts from his diaries. It is said that Queen Elizabeth II gave Mr. Pope-Hennessey unprecedented access to the Royal Archives, and she did! Along with the Archives of many friends and relatives both in Great Britain, Europe and the US. This book is by far the best researched and most in-depth biography I have ever read/listened to. It is amazing to realize the unimaginable amount of diaries, correspondence, interviews he pulled together and then to take all that first hand information, put it in chronological order and then write this amazing biography of what turns out to be an extremely remarkable person. One has to be a very remarkable & honest writer to do what Pope-Hennessey has done, he let his subject, Queen Mary herself (and her closest relations & friends return correspondence,etc.) write this book. This is a true historical account of her life, something that is rarely done today. He never wrote about rumors or speculations and made them factual, he would prove or disprove the rumors, mostly disprove with the actual facts! When he was chosen to write this Biography by The Palace, he originally turned it down, when he finally accepted, the Queen placed no restrictions on what he could see in the Archives of what he could say/write about. This is the product of QE II & the Palace trust in him as a writer, in my opinion he does not disappoint! This is pure truth and unvarnished facts put together, for a look into the life of a person who was in the front row of an amazing amount of history! From Queen Victoria to Elizabeth II! Five Sovereigns, three Coronations (including her own as Queen Consort of George V), the first and second World Wars, the loss of so many relatives, the of majority of European Royal Families & Russian Czar Nicholas& his family, due to these wars, the Abdication Crisis caused by her own son,David aka Edward VIII aka Duke of Windsor (&Wallis Simpson, Dutchess of Windsor) and her other son Albert/Bertie and wife Elizabeth (George VI & Queen Elizabeth aka the Queen Mum (The Kings Speech) having to step into the breach, putting her Granddaughter as heir presumptive and then heir, todays much beloved Queen Elizabeth II, you can see who she gets her stoicism from, Queen Mary! If you enjoy: Royal Biographies this is a must read; History in general, you can't miss this first hand account of one of a few people who lived through so many events that shaped the world as we know it today. Buy 'Queen Mary' by James Pope-Hennessey now!

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• Mary B. Wheeler

Genuine lovely lady

This is one of the best biographies that I have ever read. Mr. James Pope -Hennessy seemed to care about his subject and did a beautiful job with this lovely lady. Even though it was a long book, it was so well done that the time flew by. The narrator, Gareth Armstrong, did an excellent job. I highly recommend.

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• Monty and Button

Gareth Armstrong makes this come alive!

A perfect narrator. Catches just the right tone and playful spirit of the book. A pleasure to listen to. Queen Mary is not, in and of herself, a subject to inspire much interest but Mr. Pope-Hennessy’s words read aloud by Mr. Armstrong will keep you actively engaged throughout.

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• AmazonShopper

I have read a lot of books about QM, and this was one of my favorites! Full of tidbits from letters and journals. Highly recommend!

A true masterpiece!

What a magnificent book. A work of great scholarship & art. Every word carefully considered. Funny, reverent, & true.

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How Do I Love Thee....

Let me tell you how much I love this book....I've listened to it 3 time in the last 2 years. It is one of the most acerbically witty, thoughtful, and entertaining books I have ever read. Much like the subject herself. The narrator's voice, intonation, and pattern of speech was tailor made for this gem.

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Excellent. Read like a novel. Showed her to be much more than some accounts of history have made her out to be.

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• Scott Stephen Bell

The (Royal) Standard

This is the biography by which all other biographies of royals shall be judged. The research is first rate, and the writing paints a veritable portrait of the fascinating life of HM Queen Mary. The use of primary source material is first-rate, as is the narrator’s skill at delivering the style of the author.

• L. T. McIlrath

Candid. Beautifully written

I am a history buff whose eyes were opened about this great lady’s daily life. Although unacquainted with the life of the average British subject, I never realized how unafraid she was to interact and serve their needs. She is often described as cold but I do not hear of that in this account. Beautifully written, beautifully read with clear generational lines. I loved it!

Fabulous extreme quality writing

Enjoy this unique and valuable creation. I will read it again. A treasure for historians.