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MEMORIES OF NINETY YEARS Duchess of Gloucester Princess Alice

MEMORIES OF NINETY YEARS By Duchess of Gloucester Princess Alice

MEMORIES OF NINETY YEARS by Duchess of Gloucester Princess Alice


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Published in the year of her 90th birthday, these reminiscences of the widow of the younger brother of Edward VIII and George VI, offer insights into a bygone age. The author invokes the vanished world of her aristocratic childhood and traces her progress to marriage into the Royal Family.

MEMORIES OF NINETY YEARS Summary

MEMORIES OF NINETY YEARS by Duchess of Gloucester Princess Alice

Published in the year of her 90th birthday, these reminiscences of the widow of Prince Henry, younger brother of Edward VIII and George VI, offer insights into a bygone age. Herself the daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch and Queensberry, the author describes a childhood spent divided between such homes as Montagu House, Eildon Hall, Drumlanrig Castle, Dalkeith Palace, Bowhill House, Boughton and Langholm. She evokes a vanished world in which armies of servants and tons of luggage travelled from house to house as the family progressed around the country. She then moves on to her time as a debutante, to London society, to extended stays in Kenya with her uncle, Lord Francis Scott, and finally to her marriage into the Royal Family and how it affected her. The previously unpublished illustrations are from Princess Alice's private albums and scrapbooks.

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GOR001566524
9781855850484
1855850486
MEMORIES OF NINETY YEARS by Duchess of Gloucester Princess Alice
Used - Very Good
Hardback
HarperCollins Publishers
19911024
160
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