There were, says William Shawcross, literally thousands of letters. Chatty
ones, romantic ones, acerbic ones, letters full of the terrible heartbreak,
from when she was a little girl to when she was well into her nineties.
Given that she only ever gave two newspaper interviews in her life, on her
engagement to the Duke of York, the archive of letters — both to and from
the Queen Mother — to which her official biographer was given access offer
an invaluable insight into the life of a woman who was much cherished, much
written about but often much misunderstood.
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