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The Final Curtsey: A Royal Memoir by the Queen's Cousin

Margaret Rhodes

This is the intimate and revealing autobiography of Margaret Rhodes, the first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and the niece of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. Margaret was born into the Scottish aristocracy, into a now almost vanished world of privilege. Royalty often came to stay and her house was run in the style of Downton Abbey. In the Second World War years she ?lodged' at Buckingham Palace while she worked for MI5. She was a bridesmaid at the wedding of her cousin, Princess Elizabeth to Prince Philip. Three years later the King and Queen attended her own wedding; Princess Margaret

GenresRhodes, MargaretLadies-in-waitingGreat BritainBiography

237 pages

English edition · First published 2012 by Birlinn Ltd · ISBN 9780857901910

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