Elizabeth the Queen

✍ Scribed by Smith, Sally Bedell

• Book ID: 108225432
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 4 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780679643937

✦ Synopsis

**From New York Times bestselling author Sally Bedell Smith comes a magisterial new biography of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, one of the world's most fascinating, enigmatic, and admired women. **

Sally Bedell Smith is known for her compulsively readable, prodigiously researched portraits of iconic public figures, from the Clintons to the Kennedys to Princess Diana. In Elizabeth the Queen , she explores in intimate detail the public and private life of the most prominent monarch of our time: the eldest daughter of King George VI, who ascended to the throne in 1952 at the tender age of twenty-five and has beguiled royal observers ever since.

In an enterprising feat of scholarship, Smith managed to get the first look at a trove of research materials that bring fresh insights into Queen Elizabeth's professional and family relationships, including those with her husband of nearly sixty-five years, Prince Philip, her four headline-grabbing children,...