The quest for Queen Mary Pope-Hennessy, James creator author. Vickers, Hugo editor. text bibliography biography Biography. History. Interviews. enk 2018 monographic eng print 335 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 24 cm "Queen Mary, the widow of George V, and grandmother of the Queen, died at Marlborough House on 24 March 1953, a few months before the Coronation. She was eighty-five years old. Unusually for a Queen consort, an official biography was commissioned. The last similar exercise was the life of the Prince Consort, commissioned by Queen Victoria. The task was entrusted to James Pope-Hennessy. Pope-Hennessy embarked on his three year quest for Queen Mary in 1955. It was to take him to many royal courts and to the lunch and tea tables of retired courtiers and ladies-in-waiting. He had access to a great number of private documents. He was shown royal residences both in England and in Europe. As he went along, he kept notes about who he met and what he saw. Pope-Hennessy had not intended the notes of his royal interviews to be published for fifty years (i.e. until 2009). He described them as follows: 'To supplement the manuscript and printed sources I kept a private and confidential file recording in considerable detail the conversations I had both with Queen Mary's immediate descendants, related German, Danish and Norwegian royalty and with surviving members of the Court of King George V and Queen Mary. None of these interviews have been published, nor could they be until a lapse of fifty years. They are strictly confidential and form, I believe, a not uninteresting study of royal psycholology as it was and as it largely remains today.'"--Book jacket. James Pope-Hennessy ; edited by Hugo Vickers. "First published in Great Britain in 2019 by Zuleika. This edition jointly published in 2018 by Zuleika and Hodder & Stoughton, an Hachette UK company"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-321) and index. Queen, consort of George V, King of Great Britain Mary 1867-1953 Pope-Hennessy, James Queen, consort of George V, King of Great Britain Mary 1867-1953 Queen, consort of George V, King of Great Britain Mary 1867-1953 Great Britain History George V, 1910-1936 Biography Queens Great Britain Biography Queens Great Britain 1910-1936 fast DA574.A2 P62 2018 941.083092 9781999777036 1999777034 9781529330625 1529330629 9781529330649 1529330645 CDN 180810 20181025101022.0 in00004038684 eng