The real Elizabeth : an intimate portrait of Queen Elizabeth II
(2012)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
BIOGRAPHY/ELIZABETH II
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Henry Holt, [2012]
©2012
©2012
EDITION
First U.S. edition
DESCRIPTION
349 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780805094169, 0805094164, 0805094164 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"Originally published as Diamond Queen: Elizabeth II and her people in Great Britain in 2011 by Macmillan UK, London."
Preface to the U.S. edition -- Prologue: what the Queen does -- Dynasty is destiny: how the British monarchy remade itself -- Lilibet -- Interlude: the Queen in the world -- The Queen at work -- Interlude: Britannia and the waves -- Off with her head! the Queen in the sixties -- Interlude: money -- Into the Maelstrom -- Epilogue: the future
A surprising and very personal biography of a woman who may be the world's last great queen, published to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of her reign