The quest for Queen Mary / James Pope-Hennessy ; edited by Hugo Vickers.
Publication details: London : Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 2018.Description: 335 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, genealogical table ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781529330649 (paperback)
- 1529330645 (pbk.)
- 1529330629
- 9781529330625
- Mary, Queen, consort of George V, King of Great Britain, 1867-1953
- Pope-Hennessy, James. Queen Mary, 1867-1953
- Mary, Queen, consort of George V, King of Great Britain, 1867-1953
- Biographies
- Queens -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Great Britain -- History -- George V, 1910-1936
- Great Britain -- History -- George V, 1910-1936 -- Biography
- 941.083
- DA574.A2 P67 2018
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Biography | 941.083 POP | Available | 068994 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE THE COMMISSION / Hugo Vickers -- Introduction -- A Chronology of Queen Mary's Life -- Family Tree -- Editorial Note -- pt. TWO THE INTERVIEWS / James Pope-Hennessy -- 1955 -- 1.Lady Cynthia Colville -- 1956 -- 2.Mr Hough -- 3.Norway -- 4.King Gustaf VI Adolf and Queen Louise of Sweden -- 5.Lord Carnock -- 6.The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire -- 7.Sandringham -- 8.Lady Estella Hope -- 9.Pauline, Frau Furstin zu Wied, Prinzess von Wurttemberg -- 10.Hon Margaret Wyndham -- 11.The Countess of Shaftesbury -- 12.Lady Juliet Duff -- 1957 -- 13.Princess Arthur of Connaught -- 14.Lord Claud Hamilton -- 15.Lady Reid -- 16.Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone -- 17.Grand Duchess Xenia -- 18.The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester -- 19.The Archbishop of Canterbury -- 20.Mr John Wilson -- 21.Dee-Side -- 22.The Duke and Duchess of Windsor -- 23.Lady Cynthia Colville -- 1958 -- 24.Hon Daisy Bigge -- 25.The Marquess and Marchioness of Cambridge --
Contents note continued: 26.Miss Mary Chromy -- 27.Duke Philipp of Wurttemberg and Dom Odo -- 28.Prince and Princess Axel of Denmark -- 29.The Due de Baena -- 30.The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort -- 31.The Duchess of Windsor.
"Queen Mary, the widow of George V, and grandmother of the Queen, died at Marlborough House on 24 March 1953, a few months before the Coronation. She was eighty-five years old. Unusually for a Queen consort, an official biography was commissioned. The last similar exercise was the life of the Prince Consort, commissioned by Queen Victoria. The task was entrusted to James Pope-Hennessy. Pope-Hennessy embarked on his three year quest for Queen Mary in 1955. It was to take him to many royal courts and to the lunch and tea tables of retired courtiers and ladies-in-waiting. He had access to a great number of private documents. He was shown royal residences both in England and in Europe. As he went along, he kept notes about who he met and what he saw. Pope-Hennessy had not intended the notes of his royal interviews to be published for fifty years (i.e. until 2009). He described them as follows: 'To supplement the manuscript and printed sources I kept a private and confidential file recording in considerable detail the conversations I had both with Queen Mary's immediate descendants, related German, Danish and Norwegian royalty and with surviving members of the Court of King George V and Queen Mary. None of these interviews have been published, nor could they be until a lapse of fifty years. They are strictly confidential and form, I believe, a not uninteresting study of royal psycholology as it was and as it largely remains today.'"--
