Featuring new revelations and colorful anecdotes about the woman Cecil Beaton, the high society photographer, once summarized as “a marshmallow made on a welding machine,” Do Let’s Have Another Drink is a delightful celebration of one of the most consistently popular members of the royal family. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site.

The title "Do Let's have Another Drink" comes from her use of that phrase to change the subject when she didn't want to talk about something. We know their names; King George VI, Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Phillip, Prince (now King) Charles, Princess Diana, and Prince William. Educated at Oxford University and Queen’s University, Belfast, Gareth Russell is a historian, novelist, and playwright.

A particularly poignant scene describes how she was interviewed by a historian about her recollections of Tsar Nicholas II's mother Marie, since Elizabeth was "the only person left alive who remembered her. She and Winston Churchill are given honors for keeping the spirit of England encouraged during the years of the blitz of London.

All I can say is she must have had hollow legs as many of her guests left sozzled after being entertained at lunch or dinner. She was known for her wit, sense of humor, her ability to make people feel comfortable, but also able to quickly put someone in their place. In addition, Bertie’s decadeslong struggle with stuttering, and her ceaseless supprt of him, warranted half a page. International products have separate terms, are sold from abroad and may differ from local products, including fit, age ratings, and language of product, labeling or instructions. Stepping into the Queen Mother’s rarefied universe is a little like falling through the looking glass.

The others were The Mitford Affair and The Churchill Sisters: The Extraordinary Lives of Winston and Clementine's Daughters. 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. She lived through two wars, bombings, the death of her husband, his rise to the throne and seeing her daughter do the same. I'm not a royal biography reader but I did enjoy Craig Brown's entertaining Ma'am Darling about Princess Margaret so I hoped that this would be a less obsequious and fun look at the Queen Mother's life or as a blurb stated,a biography without the boring bits. I appreciate that he did go out of his way to find new materials, because reading royal biographies gets repetitive very quickly and DLHAD is a breath of fresh air.

Although Elizabeth Lyon clearly had a very comfortable upbringing, her life wasn't without its troubles. So at first I was a little disappointed because I was waiting for the punchlines that weren't coming. Her own very privileged upbringing meant she wasn't that awed by the luxury of the royal lifestyle, and she knew it would be a near total loss of freedom for her. The title comes from her fondness for drink and her use of that expression when she wanted to turn the conversation away from a topic she had no wish to discuss.The King, George V, disliked Ann Margaret for her second daughter's name and suggested that Margaret Rose was more in keeping with Scottish princesses. I learned some fun facts about her early life, such as George VI had to propose to Elizabeth three separate times until she said yes, to the relief of George’s mother, Queen Mary. Elizabeth never forgave either of them as it meant her shy, anxious husband with the speech impediment was suddenly thrust into a role he had not really been prepared for. He is the author of several books, including The Palace, The Ship of Dreams, Young and Damned and Fair, The Emperors, and Do Let’s Have Another Drink. The author states, at one point, that the stories that Queen Mary was cold, aloof --- often failed to pay her bills and pressured relatives and others to "give" her their heirlooms and expensive furniture --- are untrue, and nothing more than dinner party gossip.