Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor

by Anne Edwards

products of pastry

qualities—a coarse laugh,

night, followed

confident that Princess

addition she was marrying

Duchess Elizabeth (Ella)

waiting

and

the rear.

most credibly

stirring up

reception upon

had last used them, with

birthday (a blue enamelled-and-diamond

orders for

SIXTEEN There is a magic

had gone into the Garter

heels of the execution

even more

“you’ve forgotten the Parliament

meet all

with his new

ever); her

Germans knew

kleptomaniac, an accusation

everyone happy

At home, the

sticktoedness and a strong

had a superb collection

of years and, in a sense,

Rachel Pauline Spender-Clay.

instrumental in

collection in the world remained

had died, but another was on the Throne

winds prevailed, and

with royal crowns

just three