Do Let’s Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

This is a biography of the Queen Mother with all the dull bits stripped out.

When told that Lady Mountbatten was being buried at sea, the Queen Mother replied cheerfully. ‘Dear old Edwina, she always did like to make a splash!’

For fans of The Crown - which surgically removed the Queen Mother’s sense of humour, and Craig Brown’s bestseller Ma'am Darling which hilariously captured Princess Margaret and the rest of the royal roost - this biography is part-joke book, part-skimming stone biography, and part-travel guide to a world that doesn’t exist anymore.

During her lifetime, the Queen Mother was as famous for her clever quips, pointed observations, and dry-as-a-martini delivery style, as she was for being a member of the Royal Family. Now, Do Let’s Have Another Drink recounts 101 amusing and astonishing vignettes - one for each year of her long remarkable life, including her coming-of-age during World War I, the abdication of her brother-in-law, the truth about her tragic nieces, and her relationship with her daughters over half a century of widowhood.

Featuring new revelations, never before published, and colourful anecdotes about the woman the high society photographer Cecil Beaton once described 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.