Dear Mary... Your Social Dilemmas Resolved (Humour)

Humor & Entertainment

Killen, Mary

Humor

Constable and Company Ltd.

This book is based on "The Tatler" column, "Candid Counsel" and like the column it offers advice to readers "suffering from personal difficulties and problems of contemporary protocol". Advice is culled from the author's experiences at the helm of high society. Mary Killen provides observations on various areas of modern life such as house parties, dinner parties, holidays, the Opera, romance and children, and deals with topics including unpleasant personal defects, coping with excessive personal popularity, meanness, cellulite and weddings. Mary Killen writes "Candid Counsel" for "The Tatler" and contributes to other magazines.

Best Behaviour: "The Tatler" Book of Alternative Etiquette

Politics & Social Sciences

Tempest, Annie

Social Sciences

Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)

Welcome to Giles and Mary reality.\nGiles is a countryman who relishes solitude. His wife Mary thrives in company and enjoys frequent escapes to London.\nAfter thirty years in a marriage of opposites, Giles and Mary have adapted to a life of domestic misunderstandings within comical misadventures.\nIn The Diary of Two Nobodies, you will have the unique opportunity to discover, first hand, what occurs when a man who sees himself as a cross between Mr Bean and Basil Fawlty shares his life with a woman who identifies closely with the Queen.\nFeaturing original illustrations by the artist Giles, himself.

The Diary of Two Nobodies

Virgin Books

Everybody is a somebody. Giles is a countryman who relishes solitude. His wife Mary thrives in company and enjoys frequent escapes to London. After thirty years in a marriage of opposites, Giles and Mary have adapted to a life of domestic misunderstandings within comical misadventures. In The Diary of Two Nobodies , you will have the unique opportunity to discover, first hand, what occurs when a man who sees himself as a cross between Mr Bean and Basil Fawlty shares his life with a woman who identifies closely with the Queen. Featuring original illustrations by the artist Giles, himself.

Diary Of Two Nobodies

Gogglebox favourite and Spectator agony aunt Mary Killen draws sage guidance on how to deal with life's slings and arrows from how Her Majesty conducts herself through them. 'When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.' - HM Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's longest-serving monarch and celebrated role model for our times. Examining such underrated virtues as duty, kindness and discretion, as exemplified by HM The Queen, Mary Killen has created a transformative guide for all who aspire to become happier, wiser and more adept at navigating life's ups and down with integrity and dignity. (We must always try not to swear.) In our throw-away fashion culture we'd all do well to follow The Queen's make-do-and-mend example. Sit up straight with a regal posture, and your digestion will benefit. Fit more into your life by following routines. Tidiness is a primary skill - as a small girl The Queen would arrange her shoes and sea shells into neat rows. To help with everyday anxieties we can study the mysterious but time-honoured techniques Her Majesty calls upon to rise above her own challenges. Packed with invaluable wisdom and insight, this small book carries a big purpose.

What Would HM The Queen Do?

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Ebury Press

A witty and passionately argued essay calling for a return to good manners, using the Queen (the mother of all Brits) as the ultimate example. Mary Killen is an expert on manners and social etiquette, and her humorous advice column in the Spectator provides original solutions to the problems of modern life. In a world currently ruled by reality TV, over-sharing through social media, and an increasingly fractious and fractured public space, we could all do with a lesson or two in from Her Royal Highness. Examining such under-rated virtues as discretion, politeness and kindness, My Queen is a humorous celebration of long-held British values in an age where discretion is not generally the better part of value. Never mind the curtsey, where's the courtesy?

How the Queen Can Make You Happy

Elliott Thompson

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