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are?'demanded the Queen Mother.'The Queen,Mummy,the Queen.'  \nAbout twenty years ago the Guardian firstpublished two amusing anecdotes about theQueen Mother.Readers reeled to see storiesactually printed in a national newspaper thatuntil then had had only an underground  \nexistence in certain circles.After that,tales aboutthe royal family became respectable;they werealso,quite rightly,believed to be true.Taken as awhole they reflect the contradictory roles we likeroyalty to fulfil:unworldly and impossibly regal,engagingly domesticated and just like us,orcamp,worldly and outrageous.  \nIn this affectionate tribute Thomas Blaikie hasgathered together a compendium of stories,many never published before,which provideaccess to a unique world.How exactly does aQueen react when she finds her footmen drapedin her jewels?What does she do to amuse  \nherself as she whiles away the hours sitting forher portrait?And how did the Duchess ofWindsor and the Queen Mother really get on?This beautifully illustrated book answers thesequestions and poses many more in itsaffectionate celebration of the diversepersonalities of the House of Windsor.  \n50  \nYou Look AwfullyLike the Queen  \nYou Look AwfullyLike the Queen  \nWIT AND WISDOM FROMTHE HOUSE OF WINDSOR  \nTHOMAS BLAIKIE  \nILLUSTRATED BY GILL TYLER  \nFoURTH ESTATE·London  \nFirst published in Great Britain in 2002 byFourth Estate  \nA Division of HarperCollinsPublishers77-85 Fulham Palace Road,London w68JBwww.4thestate.com  \nCopyright text ◎Thomas Blaikie 2002Copyright illustrations CGill Tyler 2002  \n357910864  \nThe right of Thomas Blaikie to be identified as the author ofthis work has been asserted by him in accordance with theCopyright,Designs and Patents Act 1988  \nA catalogue record for this book is available from theBritish Library  \nISBN o-00-714874-7  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this publication may bereproduced,transmitted,or stored in a retrieval system,in any form or by any means,without permission inwriting from Fourth Estate.  \nDesigned by Geoff Green,Cambridge CB45RAPrinted in Great Britain byClays Ltd,St Ives plc  \nAcknowledgements  \nI am very grateful to those who have helped metremendously in person:Tom Ades,Carol Anderson,Larry Ashmead,Adam Bager,Kate Balmforth,LadyFreda Berkeley,Tamsyn Blaikie,Michael Bloch,Catherine Blyth,Jennifer Bowen,Antonio Carluccio,Reverend Stephen Coles,Michael De-la-Noy,PatricDickinson,Derek Granger,Digby Green,GeoffGreen,Maggie Hambling,Selina Hastings,Ian Hay,Tim Hely Hutchinson,Mary Hendy,GregoryHayman,Philip Hensher,Alan Hollinghurst,JoeHunter,Sarah Hunter,Tina Jefferis MBE,FrancisKing,Katharine MacDonogh,Rick Mather,KittyMorris,Patrick O'Connor,Peter Parker,KennethPartridge,Christopher Potter,Kit Reading,TonyScotland,Ivan Seery,Sean Swallow,Robert Tiffler,Gill Tyler,Warris Vianni,Richard Walker,JillWhite OBE,James Woollcombe CBE,PhoebeWoollcombe;to those who don't wish to be men-tioned,and to those whose information has beenmost 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