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Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters
Bottom of the pile
21
/100
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Readers
31/100Critics
10/100Scholars
Author:
Andrew Morton
Publisher:
Grand Central Publishing
Date:
March 30, 2021
A biography of Queen Elizabeth II and her sister Margaret as they navigate life in the royal spotlight.
What The Reviewers Say
Andrew Morton’s biography of the sisters Elizabeth and Margaret covers well-trodden ground but raises some interesting points along the way.
The clichéd assessment 'compulsively readable' seems the most appropriate response to Andrew Morton’s 385-page book on the Windsor sisters, Elizabeth and Margaret. Much of this material will already be familiar, though perhaps given a different twist.
... an earnest examination of the yin-and-yang, Jackie-and-Marilyn dynamic between Queen Elizabeth and her late younger sister, Princess Margaret. The result is less deliciously inspired.
Morton would prefer to define the queen and her late sister in terms comfortable to Us magazine: temperamental opposites who, despite their differences, came together for a higher purpose. What that purpose was and whether it was worth the sacrifice of these two limited and sometimes desperate individuals is a question that seldom floats into view.
