William Shawcross's Books
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Macleans Online, November 3, 2009
..."fell in love with Canada" during her first trip to the country in the summer of 1939, says William Shawcross, author of a new official biography on the late royal consort. "Canada became her favourite country in the world after Britain," the...
USA Today, October 26, 2009
...Queen Mother, mother of the reigning Queen Elizabeth II and grandmother of Prince Charles, lived to be 101. William Shawcross, her biographer, appears to have covered every moment of those 101 years in his exhaustive, and at times exhausting, authorized...
Guardian Unlimited, October 23, 2009
...charm of a royal biography Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: The Official Autobiography For the Queen Mother, writes William Shawcross, as he trudges through the second half of her life, 'one decade glided into another, with the basic pattern of her...
Observer, October 3, 2009
...face of family tragedies. Nothing of this familiar picture of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother is dispelled by William Shawcross's indulgent, overlong and ultimately unsatisfying biography. Five years ago in a lecture on 'writing the modern British...
Arizona Republic, September 22, 2009
...died in 2002 at the advanced age of 101. The official account of her life by royal biographer William Shawcross runs past 1,000 pages and divulges the queen mother's opinions on topics ranging from feminism to homeopathy. In the preface of the book,...
St. Thomas Times-Journal, September 22, 2009
...died in 2002 at the advanced age of 101. The official account of her life by royal biographer William Shawcross runs past 1,000 pages and divulges the Queen Mother's opinions on topics ranging from feminism to homeopathy. In the preface of the book,...
Times Online, September 18, 2009
...the ?truth about Freemasonry? with ?the original Masonic documents behind Dan Brown?s latest bestseller?. Feud's corner: William Shawcross vs Jenni Murray When Murray unrolled a pointedly cynical series of questions in a Woman?s Hour...
Times of India, September 18, 2009
...died in 2002 at age 101. The book, 'Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: The Official Biography', by journalist William Shawcross, says Princess Margaret went through her mother's papers in 1993, several months after Prince Charles and Diana had announced...
Yahoo! Canada, September 18, 2009
...royal matriarch regretted her grandson's decision to admit adultery during a 1994 television interview, said the biographer William Shawcross, who was chosen by Queen Elizabeth II to write an account of her mother's life. The queen mother, widow of king...
Telegraph, September 18, 2009
...Sarah Bradford finds the wit and charm of the late Queen Mother brilliantly captured by William Shawcross's new, official biography In 2002, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mothers coffin lay in state in Westminster Hall after her death at the age of 101: for...
Peterborough Examiner, September 17, 2009
...died in 2002 at the advanced age of 101. The official account of her life by royal biographer William Shawcross runs past 1,000 pages and divulges the Queen Mother's opinions on topics ranging from feminism to homeopathy. In the preface of the book,...
Asiaone, September 17, 2009
...royal matriarch regretted her grandson's decision to admit adultery during a 1994 television interview, said the biographer William Shawcross, who was chosen by Queen Elizabeth II to write an account of her mother's life. And the widow of king George VI...
Webindia123, September 17, 2009
...was kept secret from the public. The book 'Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: The Official Biography', written by William Shawcross, tells that she was successfully treated for colon cancer in December 1966 and breast cancer in July 1984. In 1966, the...
Webindia123, September 17, 2009
...died in 2002 at age 101. The book, 'Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: The Official Biography', by journalist William Shawcross, says Princess Margaret went through her mother's papers in 1993, several months after Prince Charles and Diana had announced...
The Scotsman, September 17, 2009
...revealed. The royal matriarch had a 90-minute procedure to remove a tumour in December 1966, according to biographer William Shawcross, who interviewed Sir Richard Thompson, the Queen's former physician.The writer also dispels the belief that the...
Mirror.co.uk, September 17, 2009
...A Buckingham Palace source said she chose to be pictured with it because she personally selected the author, William Shawcross. Among the book's revelations is that the Queen Mother beat cancer and lived for another 35 years after an operation to remove...
Straits Times, September 17, 2009
...died in 2002 at the advanced age of 101. The official account of her life by royal biographer William Shawcross runs past 1,000 pages and divulges the queen mother's opinions on topics ranging from feminism to homeopathy. In the preface of the book,...
KansasCity.com, September 16, 2009
...died in 2002 at the advanced age of 101. The official account of her life by royal biographer William Shawcross runs past 1,000 pages and divulges the queen mother's opinions on topics ranging from feminism to homeopathy. In the preface of the book,...
The Scotsman, September 16, 2009
...for the disease. She underwent a 90-minute procedure to remove a tumour in December 1966, according to biographer William Shawcross, who interviewed Sir Richard Thompson, her former physician. In doing so Mr Shawcross dispels the long-held belief that...
Qatar Peninsula, September 12, 2009
...are one of the main sources for the 1,100-page official biography, Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, by William Shawcross, a former Sunday Times journalist, which is to be published on Thursday. The Queen Mother, who died aged 101 seven years ago, was...
Telegraph, September 11, 2009
...titles. It will be interesting to see if death sells the Queen Mother. In 2003 Penguin snapped up William Shawcross?s biography of the Queen Mother for a reported £1 million, but then that company published ?the Butler?, and Shawcross decided he...
USA Today, September 2, 2009
...Duty (Oct. 13), William Mann's How to Be a Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood (Oct. 21), William Shawcross' The Queen Mother (Oct. 23), Paul Johnson's Churchill (Nov. 3) and Andre Agassi's Open (Nov. 9). "Literary fiction: E.L. Doctorow's Homer &...
USA Today, September 2, 2009
...Duty (Oct. 13), William Mann's How to Be a Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood (Oct. 21), William Shawcross' The Queen Mother (Oct. 23), Paul Johnson's Churchill (Nov. 3) and Andre Agassi's Open (Nov. 9). "Literary fiction: E.L. Doctorow's Homer &...
The Independent, August 17, 2009
...For royalists, William Shawcross will divulge colourful details from his long-anticipated biography of the Queen Mother; for those of a political bent, the Conservative leader David Cameron will outline his ambition for the...
stuff.co.nz, August 13, 2009
...various British prime ministers are to be revealed in an official biography. The book has been penned by William Shawcross, who has also detailed the life of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, and is due to be released in Britain on September 17. Shawcross was...
stuff.co.nz, August 7, 2009
...various British prime ministers are to be revealed in an official biography. The book has been penned by William Shawcross, who has also detailed the life of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, and is due to be released in Britain on September 17. Shawcross was...
Sydney Morning Herald, August 6, 2009
...various British prime ministers are to be revealed in an official biography. The book has been penned by William Shawcross, who has also detailed the life of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, and is due to be released in Britain on September 17. Shawcross was...
Sky News Australia, August 6, 2009
...various British prime ministers are to be revealed in an official biography. The book has been penned by William Shawcross, who has also detailed the life of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, and is due to be released in Britain on September 17. Shawcross was...
Monsters and Critics, August 6, 2009
...Queen Mother are set to be revealed for the first time in an official biography. The book, by William Shawcross, includes numerous transcripts the Queen Mother secretly recorded before her passing in 2002 at the age of 101 and gives her opinion on many...
The Australian, July 3, 2009
...editor-in-chief of The Australian, found him 'always engaging, always optimistic and always full of amusing anecdotes'. Murdoch biographer William Shawcross recalls him as large in presence and cheerful. But he was also an indomitable cavalier. A bon...
The Australian, July 3, 2009
...editor-in-chief of The Australian, found him 'always engaging, always optimistic and always full of amusing anecdotes'. Murdoch biographer William Shawcross recalls him as large in presence and cheerful. But he was also an indomitable cavalier. A bon...
The Australian, July 2, 2009
...The Australian Paul Kelly found him 'always engaging, always optimistic and always full of amusing anecdotes''. Murdoch biographer William Shawcross recalled him as large, cheerful and jovial. But he was also an indomitable cavalier. A bon vivant who...
FemaleFirst.co.uk, April 23, 2009
...101. The final draft of the book - which was written by the Queen Mother's official biographer William Shawcross - was delivered to Elizabeth in early April after months of delays. The tome - which promises to reveal new information about the beloved...
standard.co.uk - londonersdiary, September 30, 2009
...Mail literary lunch at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in Bayswater. So much so that the Queen Motherâs biographer William Shawcross had to shorten his own speech rather dramatically while eating. Shawcross was rather disturbed to hear that the Royal...
standard.co.uk - londonersdiary, September 25, 2009
...Sources in the book world tells me copies of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: The Official Biography by William Shawcross are having to be sent back to the publishers from a handful of booksellers because they are said to be falling apart. "I...
midori01 by poloumbefore multimedia, September 18, 2009
...The Queen Mother: The Official Bio by William Shawcross is as official as it may come. It may come as ironic to another royal film right now that is now touring at the film festival circuit in...
Laura's Miscellaneous Musings, September 18, 2009
...interested in royal history or the history of 20th Century England: THE QUEEN MOTHER: THE OFFICIAL BIOGRAPHY by William Shawcross. It will be released in the United States on October 20th, 2009. The book was released today in England under a slightly...
Clipmarks | Live Clips, September 17, 2009
...died in 2002 at the advanced age of 101. The official account of her life by royal biographer William Shawcross runs past 1,000 pages and divulges the Queen Mother's opinions on topics ranging from feminism to homeopathy.In the preface of the book, which...
ricklibrarian, August 12, 2009
...Be a Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood by William J. Mann (100,000) The Queen Mother by William Shawcross (200,000) More Celebrity Books Coming It is said that hard economic times support escapist reading and a focus on celebrities. Maybe. Moon...
Wikipedia - Recent changes [en], May 29, 2009
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