The Times Queen Elizabeth II: Commemorating her life and reign 1926 – 2022

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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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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. Discover insights and memories of the extraordinary period of social change that was our nation’s second Elizabethan age. Of course, he can’t ignore the massive changes she has weathered during her reign, and brings it bang up to date with discussion about the rift between the Sussexes and the rest of the royal family. Secondary Col 3 Anthologies for KS3 to KS5 English White Rose Maths Secure Science for GCSE Reimagine KS3 English KS3 Science Now Collins Classroom Classicsremembers 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. Reference Col 1 Times Books A-Z Astronomy Gardening National Parks National Trust Books Road Maps & Atlases World Atlases

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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”. Elizabeth is said to have fallen in love with Philip when she met him at the age of 13. After Philip’s death, Philip and Elizabeth was revised to include more material about him, his influence and his legacy. Brandreth certainly interviewed Philip on occasions and noted that while the Duke of Edinburgh showed him friendliness, he did not offer friendship. It began as articles for an American magazine, The Ladies Home Journal. The Queen Mother was horrified at the prospect, telling “Crawfie” she must say “No No No to offers of dollars for articles about something as private & precious as our family”. Of course, Crawfie wasn’t the last royal employee to reveal the secrets of the family, but what she wrote now seems mild. How things have changed. But if you want to read an intimate account of the childhood of the devoted sisters, this could be the place to start. Revision Col 3 Collins at Home | Support for schools Home tutors Letts Revision Collins4Parents Collins Book Sale Revision for students 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.

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. 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. 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”.

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Bedell Smith, a former contribtuing editor to Vanity Fair, told the magazine that “one thing I tried to do was to show how isolated she was in her position as Queen and wife and mother. Even though she’s surrounded by people all the time, she’s always been alone in many ways.” Seward’s take is this: “She has always appreciated how difficult it is for someone so obsessed with his masculine image as her husband to have a wife who always takes precedence over him. If compromise is marriage’s essential ingredient, it has been especially vital to the Queen and Prince Philip.” And now that her reign is over, you would be right to assume there will be more books to come. People may well open up more about her life and personality, but there are bound to be more assessments of her remarkable reign.He is a frequent lecturer on the monarchy and commentator on royal matters for American broadcasters. When Majesty was published, former New Statesman editor Anthony Howard wrote in The New York Times: “Lacey is historian and biographer in his own right as well as being a highly professional journalist – and though authentic source material on the Royal Family is scanty (no one is allowed to know even the names of the Queen’s dogs) he has methodically been through virtually everything that exists.”

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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.” International Col 1 Cambridge International Caribbean International Early Years Collins Big Cat for International Schools International Resources Webinars Catalogues Big Cat Writing Competition Winners 2023 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. For many years, this book has been regarded as one of the best and most perceptive of biographies of the monarch. Had Ben Pimlott not died in his 50s in 2004, he would surely have produced another updated edition. 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.

When the book was published, it was described as “ludicrously lubricious” in Britain’s Observer newspaper and in his review Oxford-based Australian academic Peter Conrad said Brandreth’s “entire biography of the pair can best be read as the product of a sweatily over-heated imagination. It’s the kind of imagination a snob possesses, elated by a dizzy dream of high society and of his own exclusive access to it.” Towards the end, in his consideration of the future he cites the Harvard political scientist Joseph Nye, who first identified the concept of soft power, calling her one of Britain’s core soft-power assets. “I think Brexit reduced British soft power in much of the world, in terms of influence, but it did not affect the cultural attraction of the Queen.” 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. The former newspaperman’s biography of the Queen is predicated on the notion that she saved the House of Windsor and therefore monarchy has survived. Indeed, his subtitle refers to her 70-year battle to do just that. 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.”