Our world has changed more in her lifetime than in any of her predecessors': the Queen has remained a calm presence at the centre, earning the respect of monarchists and republicans.
More than 2 billion people watched the wedding of her grandson Prince William to Catherine Middleton in 2010 shortly before she made the first State Visit to Ireland by a British monarch for 100 years.
Her own family experiences, a mixture of happiness and crisis, weddings and divorces, and, in the case of Diana, violent death, have been lived in the glare of tabloid headlines. The Queen has lived through nearly a century of immense change and upheaval. This definitive, widely-praised biography includes many never-before-seen photographs. Sarah Bradford's Elizabeth is the definitive biography of the Queen, revealing the real woman behind the public figure - now celebrating the Platinum Jubilee, her 70th year on the throne Called fascinatingly complex by The Wall Street Journal, this New York Times bestseller is the first biography of Great Britain's current monarch written by a palace insider-Sarah Bradford, the Viscountess Bangor.
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