Princess Marys Gift Book

H.R.H. Princess Mary A Holiday in Bed J. M. Barrie The Spy G. A. Birmingham Charlie the Cox Hall Caine Canada's Word Ralph Connor Bimbashi Joyce A. Conan Doyle The Ant-Lion J. H. Fabre An Angel of God Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler A Model Soldier Charles Garvice The Land of Let'spretend Lady Sybil Grant Magepa the Buck H. Rider Haggard True Spartan Hearts Beatrice Harraden Big Steamers Rudyard Kipling A True Story from Camp The Bishop of London The Ebony Box A. E. W. Mason A Spell for a Fairy Alfred Noyes Out of the Jaws of Death: A Pimpernel Story Baroness Orczy What Can a Little Chap Do? John Oxenham Altogether Different W. Pett Ridge The Escape Annie S. Swan Fleur-de-Lis Kate Douglas Wiggin

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In 1914, Princess Mary, the only daughter of King George V, was just 17. Yet with the world war two months old, the young princess was destined to make her mark. She would send a Christmas gift to all those serving in uniform, 'afloat and at the front.' With great determination, she set about her task to provide her gift to all those on active ......

Princess Diana is seen as the first member of the British royal family to tear up the rulebook, and the Duchess of Cambridge is modernising the monarchy in strides. But before them was another who paved the way. Princess Mary was born in 1897. Despite her Victorian beginnings, she strove to make a princess's life meaningful, using her position to help those less fortunate and defying gender conventions in the process. As the only daughter of King George V and Queen Mary, she would live to see not only two of her brothers ascend the throne but also her niece Queen Elizabeth II. She was one of the hardest-working members of the royal family, known for her no-nonsense approach and her determination in the face of adversity. During the First World War she came into her own, launching an appeal to furnish every British troop and sailor with a Christmas gift, and training as a nurse at Great Ormond Street Hospital. From her dedication to the war effort, to her role as the family peacemaker during the Abdication Crisis, Mary was the princess who redefined the title for the modern age. In the first biography in decades, Elisabeth Basford offers a fresh appraisal of Mary's full and fascinating life.

Princess Mary's Gift BookAll profits on sale given to the Queen's "Work for Women"Fund which is acting in Conjunction with The NationalRelief Fund"Untold Tales of the Past"; BIG STEAMERS, by Rudyard Kipling, in "A History of England," by C. R. L. Fletcher and Rudyard Kipling; BIMBASHI JOYCE, by Arthur Conan Doyle, in "The Green Flag, and other Stories"; and we have to thank Messrs. William Blackwood & Sons, The Oxford University Press, and Messrs. Smith, Elder & Co. for permission to include these contributions in Princess Mary's Gift Book.With these exceptions the poems and stories in this book have not previously been issued in volume form.