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Queen Mary (1959) Queen Victoria at Windsor and Balmoral (1959) Verandah (1964) Sins of the Fathers (1967) Half-Crown Colony: A Hong Kong Notebook (1969) Anthony Trollope (1971) Robert Louis Stevenson (1974) A Lonely Business – A Self Portrait of James Pope-Hennessy (1981). Edited by Peter Quennell. The Quest for Queen Mary (2018).
In 1955 Lascelles was very supportive of James Pope-Hennessy's commission to write an official biography of Queen Mary, although initially he wondered why and by whom this unknown young writer had been commissioned. Lascelles was a crucial witness for many key events (e.g. the abdication of Edward VIII).
Prince George, Duke of York, and Princess Victoria Mary of Teck were married at 12:30 on 6 July 1893 at the Chapel Royal at St James's Palace. [9] [10] Their wedding was the first royal wedding to take place in St James's Chapel since the death of Prince Albert in 1861, which plunged Queen
James Pope-Hennessy. Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO) ... Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong. Albert George Hamer, Representative, British Council, Nyasaland.
Pope-Hennessy, James (1959), Queen Mary, London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd. This page was last edited on 30 January 2025, at 19:59 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
In the mid-20th century, the official biographers of Queen Mary and King George V, James Pope-Hennessy and Harold Nicolson respectively, promoted hostile assessments of Albert Victor's life, portraying him as lazy, ill-educated and physically feeble.
In his book, Queen Mary (London, 1959), the Queen's official biography, James Pope-Hennessy reports that the Queen's aunt Augusta was not fond of the new science of photography, fearing it would intrude deeply into the private lives of Royal personages; at pp. 101–105 he offers a masterly sketch of this formidable lady.
Mary I (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558), also known as Mary Tudor, and as "Bloody Mary" by her Protestant opponents, was Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 and Queen of Spain as the wife of King Philip II from January 1556 until her death in 1558.