The Queen Mother
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1:00:00The Queen Mother
Charting the final 50 years of the Queen Mother.
1:00:00The final 50 years of the Queen Mother, in which she lost her partner and became a widow at the age of 51 years old, as well as his many royal properties, and as she believed at the time, her role in national life, are examined.
1:00:00Royal insiders, historians and journalists discuss how World War II impacted the royal family as they became symbols of defiance by refusing to vacate London as it was being bombed by Germany, and how the queen coped the passing of her husband.
1:00:00The Queen Mother enjoyed a privileged Edwardian childhood, split between the West End for the ‘London Season’, Glamis Castle in Scotland (the fictional home of Macbeth) and the family home near Hitchin in Hertfordshire. But how did the woman who never expected to be Queen become the leader Hitler called ‘the most dangerous...