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The highly acclaimed unexpurgated notes taken by James Pope-Hennessy for his official biography of Queen Mary, the present Queen's grandmother. Published in full for the first time and edited by much-admired royal biographer Hugo Vickers.
When James Pope-Hennessy began his work on Queen Mary's official biography, it opened the door to meetings with royalty, court members and retainers around Europe. The series of candid observations, secrets and indiscretions contained in his notes were to be kept private for 50 years. Now published in full for the first time and edited by the highly admired royal biographer Hugo Vickers, this is a riveting, often hilarious portrait of the eccentric aristocracy of a bygone age.
Giving much greater insight into Queen Mary than the official version, and including sharply observed encounters with, among others, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, the Duke of Gloucester, and a young Queen Elizabeth, The Quest for Queen Mary is set to be a classic of royal publishing.
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- Duración: 11 h y 36 m
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The Housekeeper's Tale reveals the personal sacrifices, bitter disputes and driving ambition that shaped these women's careers. Using secret diaries, unpublished letters, and the neglected service archives of our stately homes, Tessa Boase tells the extraordinary stories of five working women who ran some of Britain's most prominent households.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Utterly intriguing
- De Pamela Jane en 09-14-17
De: Tessa Boase
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Rose
- My Life in Service to Lady Astor
- De: Rosina Harrison
- Narrado por: Wanda McCaddon
- Duración: 8 h y 36 m
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In 1928, Rosina Harrison arrived at the illustrious household of the Astor family to take up her new position as personal maid to the infamously temperamental Lady Nancy Astor, who sat in Parliament, entertained royalty, and traveled the world. "She's not a lady as you would understand a lady" was the butler's ominous warning. But what no one expected was that the iron-willed Lady Astor was about to meet her match in the no-nonsense, whip-smart girl from the country.
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AWFUL!! I was very disappointed.
- De The Louligan en 08-12-13
De: Rosina Harrison
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Cakes and Ale
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: James Saxon
- Duración: 6 h y 29 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 151
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When Cakes and Ale was first published in 1930 it roused a storm of controversy, since many people imagined they recognised portraits of literary figures now no more. It is the novel for which Maugham wished to be remembered.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Delightful
- De RueRue en 04-22-16
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A Handful of Dust
- De: Evelyn Waugh
- Narrado por: Andrew Sachs
- Duración: 6 h y 43 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 300
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Evelyn Waugh's 1934 novel is a bitingly funny vision of aristocratic decadence in England between the wars. It tells the story of Tony Last, who, to the irritation of his wife, is inordinately obsessed with his Victorian Gothic country house and life. When Lady Brenda Last embarks on an affair with the worthless John Beaver out of boredom with her husband, she sets in motion a sequence of tragicomic disasters that reveal Waugh at his most scathing.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Slow Start then Subtle
- De Michael en 05-16-15
De: Evelyn Waugh
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High Rising
- A Virago Modern Classic
- De: Angela Thirkell, Alexander McCall Smith - introduction
- Narrado por: Jilly Bond
- Duración: 7 h y 8 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 217
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Successful lady novelist Laura Morland and her boisterous young son, Tony, set off to spend Christmas at her country home in the sleepy surrounds of High Rising. But Laura's wealthy friend and neighbor, George Knox, has taken on a scheming secretary whose designs on marriage to her employer threaten the delicate social fabric of the village.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Beginning of a journey
- De Jerri C en 11-04-16
De: Angela Thirkell, y otros
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Mrs. Tim of the Regiment
- De: D. E. Stevenson
- Narrado por: Christine Rendel
- Duración: 13 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 136
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Vivacious, young Hester Christie tries to run her home like clockwork, as would befit the wife of British Army officer, Tim Christie. However hard Mrs Tim strives for seamless living amidst the other army wives, she is always moving flat-out to remember groceries, rule lively children, side-step village gossip and placate her husband with bacon, eggs, toast and marmalade. Left alone for months at a time whilst her husband is with his regiment, Mrs Tim resolves to keep a diary of events large and small in her family life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Life as a military wife
- De Jerri C en 03-09-13
De: D. E. Stevenson
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The Blood Doctor
- De: Barbara Vine
- Narrado por: Robert Powell
- Duración: 15 h y 23 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 87
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The First Lord Nanther, expert in blood diseases, particularly the royal disease of Heamophilia, and favoured physician to Queen Victoria, clearly hoped to be the subject of an admiring posthumous biography. But when his great-grandson, Martin Nanther begins to research his life for a biography, the Martin comes to suspect that his great-grandfather’s old records conceal more than they reveal.
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5 out of 5 stars
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clever, excellent storytelling
- De connie en 07-09-11
De: Barbara Vine
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Fortune's Children
- The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt
- De: Arthur T. Vanderbilt II
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 18 h y 5 m
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Written by descendant Arthur T. Vanderbilt II, Fortune's Children traces the dramatic and amazingly colorful history of this great American family, from the rise of industrialist and philanthropist Cornelius Vanderbilt to the fall of his progeny - wild spendthrifts whose profligacy bankrupted a vast inheritance.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Rise and Fall of the Gilded Age
- De Hilary en 10-22-14
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Daddy-Long-Legs
- De: Jean Webster
- Narrado por: Kate Forbes
- Duración: 4 h y 4 m
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Jerusha Abbott is the oldest orphan in the John Grier Home. Every day she helps scrub and dress the younger children - all 97 of them. Soon she will graduate from high school and be on her own. Where will she go, and how will she support herself? When an anonymous wealthy donor decides to send her to college, Jerusha can hardly believe her good fortune. All she must do in return is send him a letter once a month. With all the excitement of college life - classes, parties, new friends, and a special gentleman - Jerusha can hardly stop writing!
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5 out of 5 stars
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Delightful
- De Greg and Sara Masarik en 04-06-15
De: Jean Webster
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Celia's House
- De: D. E. Stevenson
- Narrado por: Lesley Mackie
- Duración: 9 h y 25 m
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In name and by birth, Celia was a Dunne. She had inherited the beautiful old family home by the Rydd Water – but was she bound to live her life by the principles of her predecessors? Was there some hidden restraint that compelled her to heed the past? Celia’s house is a moving and poignant story of the struggle between old and young: the older generation anxious to preserve the values they have helped create while their children are determined at all costs to make lives of their own.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Boarder area of Scotland
- De Jerri C en 03-14-11
De: D. E. Stevenson
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Servants' Hall
- A Real Life Upstairs, Downstairs Romance
- De: Margaret Powell
- Narrado por: Susan Lyons
- Duración: 7 h y 3 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 309
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Margaret Powell's Below Stairs became a sensation among listeners reveling in the luxury and subtle class warfare of Masterpiece Theatre's hit television series Downton Abbey. Now in the sequel Servants' Hall, Powell tells the true story of Rose, the under-parlourmaid to the Wardham Family at Redlands, who took a shocking step: She eloped with the family's only son, Mr. Gerald.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Memoir of a Bygone Era
- De Michelle N. Lynch en 04-08-15
De: Margaret Powell
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The Lark
- De: E. Nesbit
- Narrado por: Anne Hancock
- Duración: 9 h y 15 m
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Orphaned cousins Jane and Lucilla, both 19, receive the exciting news that their guardian is at last allowing them to leave boarding school. But their rosy future is thwarted when they find he has made some bad investments and fled, leaving them with a cottage in the English countryside and a modest bank account.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It has that wonderful charm of the tales of old...
- De Lidia Chymkowska en 10-03-18
De: E. Nesbit
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The Glitter and the Gold
- The American Duchess - In Her Own Words
- De: Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
- Duración: 9 h y 44 m
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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.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Facinating Story- Terrible reading
- De Ashley D en 03-27-14
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The Town House
- De: Norah Lofts
- Narrado por: Juliet Prague, Martyn Read
- Duración: 17 h y 22 m
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"It was in the first week of October in the year 1391 that I first came face to face with the man who owned me… the man whose lightest word was to us, his villeins, weightier than the King’s law or the edicts of our Holy Father…” So began the story of Martin Reed - a serf whose resentment of the automatic rule of his feudal lord finally flared into open defiance.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another winner by Norah Lofts
- De Bird Lady 147 en 10-03-17
De: Norah Lofts
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Now, Voyager
- Femmes Fatales
- De: Olive Higgins Prouty
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
- Duración: 7 h y 52 m
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Boston blueblood Charlotte Vale has led an unhappy, sheltered life. Lonely, dowdy, repressed, and pushing 40, Charlotte finds salvation at a sanitarium, where she undergoes an emotional and physical transformation. After her extreme makeover, the new Charlotte tests her mettle by embarking on a cruise and finds herself in a torrid love affair with a married man which ends at the conclusion of the voyage. But only then can the real journey begin, as Charlotte is forced to navigate a new life for herself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Inspiration for The Movie Classic
- De Susie en 12-17-12
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The Razor's Edge
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
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The Great War changed everything and everyone, and Larry Darrell is no exception. Though his physical wounds from the war heal, his spirit is changed almost beyond recognition. He leaves his betrothed, the beautiful and devoted Isabel; studies philosophy and religion in Paris; lives as a monk, and witnesses the exotic hardships of Spanish life. All of life that he can find - from an Indian Ashrama to labor in a coal mine - becomes Larry's spiritual experiment as he spurns the comfort and privilege of the Roaring 20s.
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4 out of 5 stars
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An Classic of Love and the Desire for Meaning
- De Eric en 01-06-17
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Quest for Queen Mary
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- clandstu
- 09-13-23
Pure gold
This was such a wild book. From the gossip to the writing, it’s an enjoyable listen. Loved it.
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- Dr. A.
- 11-20-18
obscure but poor gold
this is an amazing book, pope-hennessey was an amazing writer. if you are a fan of English history of this era, this is the ultimate
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- CArolyn conroy
- 03-20-20
The quest for Oueen Mary
Interesting book The funny part the narrator does not know that Baltimore Maryland does not have Southern accents. Made the Ducess sound like Georgia belle. Recommend but stuffy and slightly boring. Carolyn C.
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- Bookworm
- 08-22-20
Totally enjoyed this book!
Hated for it to end. I enjoyed everything about it- narrator was very good and the story was quite interesting.
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- R Holcombe
- 06-11-20
Did not want this to end!
Absolutely loved this book. Extremely interesting yet also funny, read so well by the narrators, loved listening to every minute of it! Wish there was another one!!!
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- bigdjunta
- 02-11-20
Very informative and entertaining
I learned things from this book that I never knew and the story was interesting, colorful, intelligent, and funny. I truly enjoyed it. The narrator was superb.
I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
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- Etoile NEOhio
- 01-26-22
Meh
Not particually engaging although there were a few funny anecdotes. The most annoying thing was the perpetual insertion of dates. Destroyed the flow of the narrative.
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- 509Cougs
- 01-17-20
Quite possibly the best biography ever!
It so refreshing that palace insiders refrained from railing overt the Duke and his curious consort.
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- Wiggins1
- 09-16-21
Very interesting
It wasn't what I expected but I enjoyed it. The reading was excellent and, at times, quite funny.
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- Scott Stephen Bell
- 10-18-23
Truly unique and worthy of a listen!
This fantastic piece of well-researched literature deserves to be heard. It provides insight into what the author was thinking, as well as behind-the-scenes information published in the original manuscript. It lets you into the world of the author end of the subject of the biography. With multiple narrators, one never gets bored listening.
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