Over the next fifty years he met her many times, both at public and at private events. Through his friendship with the Duke of Edinburgh, he was given privileged access to Elizabeth II.

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Discover insights and memories of the extraordinary period of social change that was our nation’s second Elizabethan age. This biography by Ben Pimlott is generally considered the best political life of Elizabeth II. A former chairman of the Fabian Society — and biographer of Harold Wilson and Labour MP Hugh Dalton — Pimlott’s account of the Queen’s life is unsentimental. Updated in 2012 by Pimlott’s friend and colleague Peter Hennessy, it focuses on the Queen’s career as a constitutional monarch, her interventions in politics and the impact her leadership had on monarchy, government and diplomacy. So readable and refreshing even after the millions of words that have been written about Prince Philip in the past couple of weeks' THE TIMES He has written several other biographies and histories, including acclaimed two accounts of Saudi Arabia, The Kingdom and Inside the Kingdom. Most recently he has published Battle of Brothers: William, Harry and the Inside Story of a Family in Tumult.

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From her childhood in the 1920s to the era of Harry and Meghan in the 2020s, from her war years at Windsor Castle to her death at Balmoral, this is both a record of a tumultuous century of royal history and a truly intimate portrait of a remarkable woman. Pimlott was a political scientist and historian who had dabbled with a political career, written lives of British Labour figures, and in 1996 this whopper, to which he added five chapters for the Golden Jubilee in 2002. It was immediately acclaimed on publication and in his foreword to a 2012 Diamond Jubilee edition, historian Peter Hennessy said it was the “product of what happened when a leading political biographer and a top-flight historian of the 20th century ... took a long and serious look at the formation, the functions, the style and the adaptability of the lady whom we Brits of the post-war era were, and are, so fortunate to have as our Head of State”. Elizabeth was young when smitten by Philip. They were eventually married in 1947, only two years after the end of the Second World War and remained so until his death in 2021. Who can forget the poignant image of the Queen sitting on her own at his funeral. Paints a unique picture of the remarkable woman who reigned for seven decades. Fascinating insights' HELLO! Hardman has an easy style as befits a long-time journalist and former royal correspondent, author of three previous books about the Queen and a documentary filmmaker with a number of television documentaries on the royals.

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The question is where to start now? Here is a selection of the many books about the life of the late Queen Elizabeth II. Some are more recent, including a couple from this year, while others were first published years ago. Reference Col 1 Times Books A-Z Astronomy Gardening National Parks National Trust Books Road Maps & Atlases World Atlases An unauthorised book published in 2012 for the Diamond Jubilee by an American journalist who has also written lives of Princess Diana, the Kennedys, the Clintons, and Prince Charles, Elizabeth the Queen looks at both the public and personal side of her life. It reveals, for example, the tension provoked by her decision not to take her husband’s surname (Mountbatten) and her feelings about the collapse of Charles and Diana’s relationship.Secondary Col 3 Anthologies for KS3 to KS5 English White Rose Maths Secure Science for GCSE Reimagine KS3 English KS3 Science Now Collins Classroom Classics

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Published to mark Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee, this is really a collection of observational writings from an array of people such as Margaret Thatcher, Sebastian Coe, Cecil Beaton, Eleanor Roosevelt, Cliff Richard, Nicola Sturgeon and Margaret Whitlam about their personal encounters with or views of the Queen. And another said: “Smith often pulls her punches; the Queen’s passion for her dogs and horses gets more ink than daughters-in-law Camilla (the future Queen Consort) and Sophie, and the monarch remains distant, her thoughts and feelings ultimately unknowable.”

The long years that the late Queen Elizabeth II reigned – the longest in British history – and the varied and various events of her family and public life have ensured that she is probably the most written about monarch ever. The late Queen played a key role in helping to solve the “Brexit impasse”, which allowed the UK to leave the European Union with a deal in 2019, a new book reveals. Joanna Lumley, an out-and-out fan, knits it all together and says she wanted the book to be “a discovery of her (Elizabeth) through the eyes of other people ... this book is as if I had been let loose with my microphone and wandered about among people I met at random, asking ‘What do you remember of the Queen?’” He kept a record of all those encounters, and his conversations with the Queen over the years, his meetings with her family and friends, and his observations of her at close quarters are what make this very personal account of her extraordinary life uniquely fascinating. And it turned out that Philip would be her great defender within the court. As he wrote during his honeymoon “Cherish Lilibet? I wonder if that word is enough to express what is in me. She’s the only ‘thing’ in this world which is absolutely real to me.” She loved him deeply: “When we were married I don’t think there was such a thing as a platinum anniversary, they didn’t know we would be around that long.”

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Brilliant, totally inspiring . . . It's a joy to read a book that comes from a perspective of fondness' KIRSTIE ALLSOPP, THE TIMES Robert Hardman rejects the idea that Elizabeth II is a monarch “harassed by one reverse after another” and claims in this most recently published, full biography of the Queen that the “declinist narrative” overlooks one key fact: the monarch “genuinely likes being the Queen”.remembers the glorious reign of Britain's longest-serving and much cherished monarch. Drawn from seven decades of detailed and fascinating reporting by The Times, discover insights and memories of the extraordinary period of social change that was our nation's second Elizabethan age. Margaret had to find some sort of meaning to her life - read Craig Brown’s 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret for an original take on her life – but her sister, despite perhaps being exasperated by her partying, drinking, and divorce, never really deserted her during her many difficulties. Poor, sad Margaret died only a few weeks before the Queen Mother, a double blow for the Queen. Of course, no one knows the truth of a marriage except the two people in it, so although this book promises the full story, naturally we don’t get it.