Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Best for fanatics of The Crown, this magisterial biography of Queen Elizabeth II is an in depth-up view of the girl we’ve recognized most effective from a distance—and an interesting window into the closing nice monarchy.
From the instant of her ascension to the throne in 1952 at the age of twenty-5, Queen Elizabeth II has been the thing of unprecedented scrutiny. However throughout the fog of glamour and gossip, how neatly will we actually realize the arena’s so much well-known monarch? Drawing on a lot of interviews and not-sooner than-found out files, acclaimed biographer Sally Bedell Smith pulls again the curtain to turn in intimate element the private and non-private lives of Queen Elizabeth II, who has led her u . s . and Commonwealth throughout the wars and upheavals of the closing sixty years with unprecedented composure, intelligence, and charm.
In Elizabeth the Queen, we meet the younger lady who unexpectedly turns into “heiress presumptive” when her uncle abdicates the throne. We meet the 13-12 months-antique Lilibet as she falls in love with a tender military cadet named Philip and turns into decided to marry him, although her oldsters choose wealthier English aristocrats. We see the teenage Lilibet repairing military vans all the way through Global Warfare II and status with Winston Churchill at the balcony of Buckingham Palace on V-E Day. We see the younger Queen suffering to steadiness the calls for of her task along with her function as the mum of 2 babies. Sally Bedell Smith brings us within the palace doorways and into the Queen’s day-to-day exercises—the “crimson containers” of files she opinions every day, the weekly conferences she has had with twelve top ministers, her bodily hard excursions in a foreign country, and the consistent scrutiny of the click—in addition to her non-public relationships: with Prince Philip, her husband of sixty-4 years and the affection of her lifestyles; her youngsters and their ceaselessly-disastrous marriages; her grandchildren and pals.
Praise for Elizabeth the Queen
“A very good, all-embracing new biography.”—The New York Times
“[An] enforcing, But nimbly written, biography [that] dwarfs the sector . . . a so much pleasurable and stress-free learn, one to be savored at duration.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune
“Attention-grabbing . . . After sixty years at the throne, the monarch of Britain is healthier recognized for her poker face than for sly wit or simple attraction. But in biographer Sally Bedell Smith’s Elizabeth the Queen, Her Majesty flickers with each.”—More
“[A] sensible and pleasurable e book.”—Los Angeles Times
