The Queen Mother

Renew：Part 34
Author：William Shawcross
Update：08-15-2023
Tags：Fiction Literature
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Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter and his humour, though boisterous, was not always well considered. According to George V"s biographer, Kenneth Rose, he took to reading the lessons in a dramatic manner "he endowed the Almighty with a thundering ba.s.s and Isaiah with a piping falsetto."120 Miss Agnes Keyser, known as Sister Agnes, was the founder and Matron of King Edward VII"s Hospital for Officers, which in those days was in Grosvenor Crescent off Hyde Park Corner. She had been a friend of King Edward and it was said that she had enabled him to meet his companion Mrs Keppel in her house. She liked to have patients from the Household Cavalry and the Brigade of Guards and she is reported to have been rather malicious. Harold Nicolson observed that she "enjoyed repeating to the King, not always with useful results, the talk of the town".121 This talk often included the latest gossip about the adventures of the King"s sons, in particular the Prince of Wales. She was one of the few people privileged to have her own key to Buckingham Palace garden and so she had ample opportunity to repeat to the King whatever stories she had acquired about the Princes and "bad women", a source of continual anxiety to the monarch. At Balmoral she cut a remarkable figure striding across the moors dressed in mauve and wearing an orange wig.122 But she and Canon Dalton were perhaps not ideal companions for young people who had driven many miles for dinner. When on one occasion the King asked the Labour minister J. H. Thomas, a former railwayman whose company he enjoyed, why his sons did not spend more time at Balmoral, Thomas was frank: "It"s a dull "ouse, Sir, a b.l.o.o.d.y dull "ouse."123 In September 1924 the d.u.c.h.ess wrote to her mother from Balmoral, saying that she had been meaning to write every day "but somehow it is so boring that I felt there was nothing to tell you!! However the King & Queen are in very good form, and we are both very popular!" There were consolations. "There are one or two quite nice old men here, who only appear at meals." And there was about to be a ghillies" ball "the Queen is simply thrilled", the d.u.c.h.ess commented for Queen Mary loved dancing.124 The "old men" were Lords Rawlinson and Revelstoke. Rawlinson was Commander-in-Chief of the Army in India and a much decorated First World War commander. John Baring, second Baron Revelstoke, was Receiver General of the Duchy of Cornwall and a director of the family bank. For all the boredom of Balmoral, both there and elsewhere it was part of her apprenticeship as the King"s daughter-in-law to meet men (and some women) of consequence, and such encounters no doubt helped form her abiding interest in the nation"s welfare, the Empire and the role of the monarchy.
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34