2007-03-02 05:12:24 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Royalty
That i have seen? No
2007-03-02 15:11:51 · answer #1 · answered by Dethruhate 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How do you define 'nice'? She was very well-mannered and charming. However she was also vindictive towards the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, sympathetic to South Africa's Apartheid regime, and she and her husband were also rather iffy on the question of Nazi appeasement. Rather than agreeing with Churchill that the Nazis had to be annihilated, they felt it was better to reach an accommodation with Nazi Germany; years later, the Duke of Windsor was made the scapegoat for this failing of the whole royal family. The notion that she shared in her people's privations during the war was propaganda; notice how she got plumper during the war while everyone else had to ration!
So she was personally very pleasant, but by no means completely nice.
EDIT: Gr8danelady, the royals will be glad to know that 60 years on people still buy their spin. Did you know she was also heckled in the East End? It was Andrew Roberts, hardly a lefty republican, who wrote that they drove out of London every night during the Blitz. And how do you defend her view that PW Botha was the victim of bad press?
Being old and cute sure goes a long way!
2007-03-02 05:36:02 · answer #2 · answered by Dunrobin 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
She did alot of work for Britain and Commonwealth, The Late King George VI did a great job! number one both of them were figure heads of the free world!! and symbols of Britains determination to carry on fighting the nazis after all other methods had failed to prevent war.
With out churchill and the King & Queen, i doubt britain would of come out winning with the allied forces - for their Moreal support.
2007-03-05 20:45:43 · answer #3 · answered by djgunn16 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think she was. I did hear a story that one of her Ladies in Waiting wanted to retire and she wouldn't let her. The reason being the Queen Mother couldn't so why should she.
2007-03-04 22:54:38 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Queen Mother was respected and loved throughout her lifetime. Her refusal to leave London during the Blitz earned the undying admiration of everyone, and people treasure the memory of meeting her while she was touring the bombed out areas. She gave Britain one more reason to fight.
Dunrobin, you better get your facts straight by reading some books that tell the truth.
2007-03-02 06:48:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
None at all.
The family & her staff are the only ones that could really tell you. However, I heard on news reports that she was always really awful to Wallis Simpson. Apparently she never, ever forgave her for being the cause of the Kings abdication which then put her husband on the throne. Her husband was a very quiet, shy man that never really took to public life.
2007-03-02 07:02:36 · answer #6 · answered by monkeyface 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
My mother met her on a couple of occasions and says she was completely charming. That might have been her public persona, as I imagine she could be quite a martinet - especially after a couple of gins.
2007-03-06 02:20:24 · answer #7 · answered by celianne 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How do we really know, apart from what we read and hear?
Its the asme as us judging teh celebrities of today... its all hearsay on second hand knowledge and it unfair on the person concerned.
Only her friends and family know for sure.
2007-03-04 00:48:14 · answer #8 · answered by just me 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes there is plenty of evidence to support this speak to anyone who met her
2007-03-02 05:18:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
her cousin was totally insane and was buried in a paupers grave in scotland after being locked up in a nut house all her life
2007-03-02 18:12:29 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The only things I've read suggest she was a bit of a tyrant.
2007-03-02 05:37:06 · answer #11 · answered by Cream tea 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋