This "outstanding, comprehensive biography of Queen Elizabeth II is a masterful study of the person known only from a distanceand a riveting insight into her decades-long reign.
Queen Elizabeth II was under unmatched scrutiny from the moment she ascended to the throne in 1952 at the age of 25. But how much did we actually know about the most renowned monarch in the world via the glitz and gossip? George Blackburn lifts the curtain on Queen Elizabeth II's public and private lives, drawing on numerous interviews and previously unpublished documents. Queen Elizabeth II guided her nation and the Commonwealth through the wars and upheavals of the 20th and 21st centuries with an unmatched calm, intelligence, and grace.
When her uncle abdicated the throne, the little girl we meet in Elizabeth the Queen unexpectedly finds herself the "heiress presumptive." Lilibet, a teenage navy cadet, is introduced to us when she is thirteen years old and becomes determined to marry Philip despite her parents' preference for wealthier English aristocracy. The young Queen is seen as she tries to manage the obligations of her career with being a mother to two small children.
George Blackburn takes us behind the walls of the palace and into the life of the Queen, her physically taxing travels, and the constant press scrutinyas well as her intimate relationships with her beloved Prince Philip, her children, and their frequently disastrous marriages, as well as her grandchildren and friends.
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