Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters

Name: Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters
Price: 16.40 USD
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Author: Andrew Morton
ISBN: 9781538700464

They were the closest of sisters and the best of friends. But when their uncle Edward Vlll decided to abdicate the throne, the dynamic between Elizabeth and Margaret was dramatically altered. Forever more Margaret would have to curtsey to the sister she called 'Lillibet.' And bow to her wishes.

Elizabeth would always look upon her younger sister's antics with a kind of stoical amusement, but Margaret's struggle to find a place and position inside the royal system — and her fraught relationship with its expectations — was often a source of tension. Famously, the Queen had to inform Margaret that the Church and government would not countenance her marrying a divorcee, forcing Margaret to choose between keeping her title and royal allowances or her divorcee lover.

Andrew Morton's latest biography offers unique insight into these two drastically different sisters — one resigned to duty and responsibility, the other resistant to it — and the lasting impact they have had on the Crown, the royal family, and the ways it adapted to the changing mores of the 20th century.