Becoming Queen Mary by Kori Roff-Lawrence

 

Will someone please find a publisher for Kori Roff-Lawrence's Becoming Queen Mary, which is available solely through Amazon.   This is the first volume in a trilogy about Queen Mary's life. 

I am serious.  This book needs a wider market.  It needs to be read and appreciated for the depth and breadth of research into Mary's life.  

Okay, in case you do not know who Queen Mary was (1867-1953), she was born HSH Princess May of Teck, the only daughter, and eldest child of HRH Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge and HRH The Duke of Teck, a morganatic scion of the German house of Württemberg.   Mary Adelaide, the People's Princess, was Queen Victoria's first cousin.

The elderly queen was fond of May and championed her as a bride for her grandson, Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, second in line to the throne after his father, the Prince of Wales. Unfortunately, for May,  Albert Victor succumbed to pneumonia in January 1892, a month before their wedding.

Albert Victor's younger brother, Prince George, Duke of York, needed a bride so why not May.  They were married in July 1893.   

Roff-Lawrence's research goes beyond the traditional biographies and histories.  She also included newspaper and magazine coverage of the young May's life.

This is a well-written and composed biography that needs more exposure because it is that good.

[In full transparency, I must add that I did read this book before publication, proofreading and making editorial comments, such as adding more endnotes and footnotes.]

Yea, this book has an index, footnotes, and endnotes, as well as a bibliography to drool over.  

Becoming Queen Mary is a crowning achievement.  I look forward to Volume 2.

Any respectable publishing house would want to have a book of this caliber on its list.