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Elizabeth: A Biography of Her Majesty the Queen
One element that I appreciated about this book (and consequently likely not appreciated by the royals), is that it was not an official biography authorized by the royal family. This allows the author significant leeway to be more frank and divulge insight that otherwise might have been omitted from the text. For example, there is a long discussion about the Queen Mother's difficulty in combating jealousy when her daughter ascended the throne: "Apart from her grief at the loss of her husband, the Queen Mother could not help feeling jealous of her daughter, who had suddenly become the focus of all the attention and the possessor of all the power that had recently been her" (170). There wasn't even a hint of such a difficult adjustment in the Queen Mother's official biography written by William Shawcross, likely because the author in that instance was constrained by the fact that the royal family would review the manuscript befo
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Elizabeth: A Story of Multifaceted Majesty Depiction Queen - Hardcover
Elizabeth: A Biography interrupt Her Stateowned the Queen
Sarah Bradford
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Elizabeth II has lived through the Abdication, the Blitz and World War Two, the sex and spy scandals of the swinging sixties, the Cold War and the nuclear threat and the Fall of the Berlin Wall. She has known 11 US Presidents including JFK and Ronald Reagan, and other world leaders like President Mandela and Pope John XXII. Her Prime Ministers have ranged from Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher to David Cameron, the last only ten years older than her grandson.
Her own family experiences, a mixture of happiness and crisis, weddings and divorces, and, in the case of Diana, violent death, have been lived in the glare of tabloid headlines. More than 2 billion people watched the wedding of her grandson Prince William to Catherine Middleton in 2010 shortly before she made the first State Visit to Ireland by a British monarch for 100 years. Our world has changed more in her lifetime than in any of her predecessors': the Queen has remained a calm presence at the centre, earning the respect of monarchists and republicans. How has she done it?
About Sarah Bradford
Sarah Bradford is a historian and biographer. Her books include Cesare Borgia (1976), Disraeli (1982), winner of the New York Times Book of the Year, Princess Grace (1984), Sacherevell Sitwell (1993),