A review by booksrockcal
Do Let's Have Another Drink: The Dry Wit and Fizzy Life of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother by Gareth Russell

funny hopeful informative lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

4.75

Cecil Beaton, the photographer, once described Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother as a marshmallow made on a welding machine. That is an accurate description based on this book. The author approaches his subject by recounting incidents from her life of 102 years. It’s all here- her support of George VI, her antipathy toward the Duke of Windsor, her love for her family and her daughters- what is apparent in this book vice others is her kind, generous, witty personality and her ability to put anyone at ease from the residents of the east end of London whose houses were bombed in the Blitz to the members of the British aristocracy. I particularly enjoyed reading about her early years in Scotland, growing up in Glamis Castle.