Description

A Times Best Book on the Royal Family of the Year 2022

This is a biography of the Queen Mother with all the dull bits stripped out

When told that Lady Mountbatten was being buried at sea the Queen Mother replied cheerfully Dear old Edwina she always did like to make a splash

During her lifetime the Queen Mother was as famous for her clever quips pointed observations and dryasaMartini delivery style as she was for being a member of the Royal Family She was also famed for her fondness for drinkypoos usually a gin and Dubonnet or three Now Do Lets Have Another Drink recounts 101 biographical vignettes one for each year of her long remarkable life including her comingofage during World War I the abdication of her brotherinlaw the truth about her tragic nieces and her relationship with her two daughters over half a century of widowhood
The book is a skimmingstone biography the story of a life without the boring bits and a travel guide to a world that no longer exists Stepping into the Queen Mothers rarefied universe is a little like falling through the looking glass The book rightly celebrates her sense of humour but also explores her enmities and feuds including the truth about her behaviour towards Wallis Simpson Nerissa BowesLyon and Diana Princess of Wales
For fans of The Crown and featuring new revelations never before published and colourful anecdotes about the woman the high society photographer Cecil Beaton once described as a marshmallow made on a welding machine Do Lets Have Another Drink is a delightful celebration of one of the most consistently popular members of the Royal Family