Colin Burgess (3)
Autore di Behind Palace Doors: My Service as the Queen Mother's Equerry
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Opere di Colin Burgess
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- Nome canonico
- Burgess, Colin
- Altri nomi
- BURGESS, Colin
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 1
- Utenti
- 62
- Popolarità
- #271,094
- Voto
- 3.4
- Recensioni
- 2
- ISBN
- 86
- Preferito da
- 1
Burgess was responsible for the planning and implementing of all the events that occurred involving the Queen Mother. From a picnic lunch in the Scottish highlands, a dinner at Clarence House with guests, a visit to the Chelsea Flower Show,or at a military function where she would ask very specific questions about operations of the different units. But duties could also be stretched to teach a younger guest (age 64) how to roller skate, or solve the dilemma when all the luncheon guests, including the Queen Mum, fall asleep in the sun except for Burgess and it is past three in the afternoon.
This book provides a unique view into the workings of the Queen Mum's household. Servants who had worked there for up to thirty years or more, who had their own ways which were rather casual when compared to the military. It sheds light on her relationships with her children and grandchildren. Who comes to visit often or never. It opens the personalities of some of the lesser know royals, Zara Phillips, daughter of Princess Anne and Princess Margaret's son, David Viscount Linley, both of whom visited often, as did Prince Charles who said: "She was quite simply the most magical grandmother you could possibly have and I was utterly devoted to her."
Posted Review
July 27, 2015
****… (altro)