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Young Elizabeth The Making Of Our Queen
Kate Williams
George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
April 2012
On Sale: April 1, 2012
Featuring: Queen Elizabeth II
208 pages
ISBN: 0297867814
EAN: 9780297867814
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
This is the story of how Elizabeth became Queen. We can
hardly imagine a Britain without Elizabeth II on the throne.
It seems to be the job she was born for. And yet, for much
of her early life, the young princess did not know the role
that her future would hold. She was our accidental Queen. As
a young girl, Elizabeth was among the guests in Westminster
Abbey watching her father being crowned, making her the only
monarch to have attended a parent's coronation. Kate
Williams explores the sheltered upbringing of the young
princess, with a gentle father and domineering mother, her
complicated relationship with her sister, Princess Margaret,
and her dependence on her nanny, Marion 'Crawfie' Crawford.
She details the profound and devastating impact of the
abdication crisis, when, at the impressionable age of
eleven, Elizabeth found her position changed overnight: no
longer a minor princess she was now heiress to the throne.
Elizabeth's determination to share in the struggles of her
people marked her out from a young age. Her father initially
refused to let her volunteer as a nurse during the Blitz,
but relented when she was eighteen and allowed her to work
as a mechanic and truck driver for the Women's Auxiliary
Territorial Service. It was her forward-thinking approach
that ensured that her coronation was televised, against the
advice of politicians at the time. Kate Williams reveals how
the 25-year-old young Queen carved out a lasting role for
herself amid the changes of the twentieth century. Her
monarchy would be a very different one to that of her
parents and grandparents. And its continuing popularity in
the twenty-first century owes much to the intelligence and
elusive personality of this remarkable woman.
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