Since I couldn't give this book a 3.5, I went for a four-star rating. I adored the first seventy percent of this book. The author was a newspaper writer, and he did his homework researching and documenting. Up until the time of George VI's death, the book contains many sections that read more ...
She began it in bed with pneumonia and ended it ill again, with the virulent influenza that attacked her so frequently. She began it as the daughter-in-law of King George V and she ended it, to her astonishment and dismay, as Queen Consort to King George VI. The abdication of King Edward VIII was...