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And Tatler STILL has the errors --it's Penny's GRANDson, not great-grandson!
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thx for this thread  can anyone recommend a good biography of Uncle Dickie. please? TIA G  |
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thx for this thread can anyone recommend a good biography of Uncle Dickie. please? TIA G Philip Zeigler wrote his official biography, and there's a LOT of naval and Indian political stuff in it. "The First Mountbattens," about his parents, is very good and not so dry. |
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And even though Princess Alice was technically never a Mountbatten (marrying long before the family name change), there are some good biographies on her out there. When I get home I'll look at my bookshelf.
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And even though Princess Alice was technically never a Mountbatten (marrying long before the family name change), there are some good biographies on her out there. When I get home I'll look at my bookshelf.
There's really only one on Alice, by Hugo Vickers. |
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And even though Princess Alice was technically never a Mountbatten (marrying long before the family name change), there are some good biographies on her out there. When I get home I'll look at my bookshelf.
There's really only one on Alice, by Hugo Vickers. Excellent book - definitely recommend it |
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"Daugther of Empire" My life as a Mountbatton
That was written by Patricia Mountbatton. it is actually the story of her youth when her father was living in India. I read it, but was a bit disappointed, nevertheless interesting to read her point of view and experiences. Being so privileged and seeing everything what happened there thru the eyes of the upper classes.
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"Daugther of Empire" My life as a Mountbatton
That was written by Patricia Mountbatton. it is actually the story of her youth when her father was living in India. I read it, but was a bit disappointed, nevertheless interesting to read her point of view and experiences. Being so privileged and seeing everything what happened there thru the eyes of the upper classes.
I felt the same. I was really excited to read this book but it wasn't exciting at all. Anne Glenconner did a better job of describing a similar time period. |
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Are you referring to "Lady in Waiting"? If you can recommend it, I would order it for my kindle.
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I finished "Lady in waiting" this morning. It reads pretty well, but overall I got some Stockholm Syndrome vibes from Lady Glenconner life. She was just a doormat for her nasty husband and equally nasty Princess Margaret and seems to be justifying this throughout the book.
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There will be no miracles here.
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I finished "Lady in waiting" this morning. It reads pretty well, but overall I got some Stockholm Syndrome vibes from Lady Glenconner life. She was just a doormat for her nasty husband and equally nasty Princess Margaret and seems to be justifying this throughout the book.
Lady in waiting is a splendid book - there has been a more recent on by Anne Glenconner called "whatever next" that has had extracts serialised in one of the newspapers which is altogether rather more difficult and dark - very bad life she had with Colin her husband |
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Thank you both for the book tipps! I will order it.
She seems to write also crime stories, I found out by looking for her on amazon.
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