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An Oral Biography Of Elizabeth II
Broadway
January 2002
On Sale: January 2, 2002
Featuring: Queen Elizabeth II
592 pages
ISBN: 0767906381
EAN: 9780767906388
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
Her public and private worlds, the life and times of
Elizabeth II and her family. Fifty years ago in February 1952, while in Kenya on the
beginning of a world tour, Princess Elizabeth ascended to
the British Throne on the death of her father, King George
VI, who the day before had stood on the tarmac at London’s
Heathrow airport waving her farewell. She returned to London
as Queen to be met at the foot of the aircraft steps by
Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The Monarchy is the brilliantly constructed oral biography
of the life of Elizabeth II and her fifty-year rule as the
second-longest-reigning British sovereign in history. This
candid look at the enduring monarch has been compiled from
interviews that paint a rich picture of the private and the
public life of the Queen. With access to over one hundred
friends and associates of the Royal Family, the authors have
woven their in-depth conversations into a fascinating,
comprehensive personal profile that brings vividly to life
the various strands of Queen Elizabeth’s life. We follow the story from her birth in an elegant townhouse
in London’s Piccadilly, through the trauma of the abdication
of her uncle, Edward VIII, and her realization that she was
the heir to the Throne. During the London blitz the Royal
Family stayed in London, an action that was loved by
Britons, and after the war her almost fairytale marriage to
Prince Philip followed by her Coronation in 1953 in
Westminster Abbey. This early life is brought vividly to
life by insiders like Lady Pamela Hicks, Lady Elizabeth
Longford, Michael Parker, Earl of Harewood, Philip Ziegler,
and others. The years of her reign, beset by political turmoil in her
beloved Commonwealth of Nations and problems nearer to home
in her family, are treated sensitively. A portrait emerges
of a woman whose understanding of political reality and
foreign and domestic policy is wide and deep. She has been
served by nine Prime Ministers from Winston Churchill to
Tony Blair (who, it is certain, has both given her advice
and received it in return). The Monarchy also sheds light
new light on Queen Elizabeth’s often strained and fractious
relationships with her children and their spouses,
including, of course, the Prince Charles/Princess
Diana/Camilla Parker Bowles drama that riveted the world. Drawing on the knowledge and observations of a wide range of
people, courtiers, journalists, heads of state, politicians,
and close friends, this book is an intimate and meaningful
tour of a remarkable life. It is also a forthright portrait
of an amazing woman: the Sovereign Lady, Queen Elizabeth II,
a figure who has captured the hearts and imagination of
millions.
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