The Queen - Couverture souple

Morton, Andrew

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1789294649 ISBN 13 : 9781789294644

Editeur : Michael O'Mara Books Ltd, 2022

Synopsis

In this entertaining and insightful biography, award-winning writer Andrew Morton, author of Diana, Her True Story and Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters, takes you behind the scenes to uncover the woman and her world.

For years she prayed for her mother to give birth to a son. She longed to be spared her
destiny as Britain’s future Queen. Her dream was to live in the country surrounded by
children, dogs and horses.

But Elizabeth did her duty, the young princess pledging before her people that she would
dedicate her whole life to the service of Britain and the Commonwealth. She hoped that
that day would be a long way off. It was not to be. Only twenty-five when she became
Queen after the premature death of her father, King George Vl, Elizabeth has become the
stuff of superlatives: the longest reigning, most travelled and, for a shy woman, the
Queen who has shaken more hands and made more small talk than any other monarch
in history. She has been seen and believed by millions, either in person, on television or
film.

Elizabeth was set firmly on the road to becoming sovereign because of the D word –
divorce. In 1936, her uncle David, King Edward VIII, wanted to marry a twice-divorced
American, Wallis Simpson. When he couldn’t he abdicated. Since that national trauma,
divorce and the fall-out from divorce has shaped her reign. She has witnessed her sister
Margaret, three of her children and several grandchildren divorce. And she has lived long
enough to see the wheel turn full circle, watching as another American divorcee, Meghan
Markle, walked down the aisle with her grandson Prince Harry.

While her reign has been defined by divorce, her private life has been moulded by an
irascible husband, an extravagant mother and a querulous eldest son. In the winter of her
reign she refereed a war between two of her grandsons, brothers William and Harry who
were once inseparable friends. As she celebrates her platinum anniversary, the first
monarch to reign for seventy years, she has, during a once in a lifetime pandemic,
become the reassuring face of hope and optimism, the grandmother to the nation.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Andrew Morton is a leading authority on modern celebrity and royalty, and author of the internationally bestselling biography Diana: Her True Story. Revealing the secret world of the Princess of Wales, the book spent fifty-eight weeks in the bestseller lists, was translated into 35 languages, and inspired films, documentaries and commentaries about the royal family.

Since, Morton has gone on to write No. 1 Sunday Times and New York Times bestsellers on Monica Lewinsky, Madonna, David and Victoria Beckham, Tom Cruise and Angelina Jolie, as well as a ground-breaking new biography of Wallis Simpson, Wallis in Love: The Untold True Passion of the Duchess of Windsor. The winner of numerous awards, he divides his time between London and Los Angeles.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1789294649
• ISBN 13: 9781789294644
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 432
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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