Queen Mother – steely resolve and an ocean of gin

“The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother” is the latest Royal gossip-feste, filled with fun anecdotes about the nation’s granny who had a backbone of pure titanium. Her consumption of industrial quantities of alcohol is the best antidote to medical gloom-mongering about the damaging effects of gin. She tottered on to 101 happily pickled.  Despite her sweet smile and marshmallow outfits, “she looked everything she was not . . . Behind