Conversely, Sir Alan “Tommy” Lascelles, for reasons unknown, gets almost his whole Who’s Who entry printed, as if the fact that he was a member of the Travellers private gentleman’s club is important to his estimation of the then Lt Philip Mountbatten. This is the first biography of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh - both royal, both great-great-grandchildren of Queen Victoria, but, in temperament and upbringing, two very different people. It was interesting to have the perspective of someone who was acquainted with Queen Elizabeth and her family.

LOOKING FORWARD TOO READING THIS THE AUTHOR WAS A FRIEND OF PRINCE PHLIP AND KNEW HIM WELL SHOULD BE A GOOD READ. Gyles Brandreth goes into great detail with information about the queen’s life and what she was really like as a person. Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh, marked their 60th wedding anniversary with a visit to Broadlands Estates in Hampshire, where they had their honeymoon in 1947. French Author Annie Ernaux, 82, Becomes First French Woman to Win Nobel Prize for Literature The author said, of winning, that "I was very surprised .With Susie Dent, the lexicographer from Countdown, he co-hosts the award-winning podcast, Something Rhymes with Purple. More likely the seventh Viscount Gage, now such a little-known figure that he doesn’t even have his own Wikipedia page. Because of that, many times her actions, in family matters especially, were misunderstood by her country and the world. Her master of the household, Sir Tony Johnstone-Burt, told Brandreth: “My principal duty with HM has been to keep her spirits up – so I’ve been watching Line of Duty with her – I’m ‘the Explainer’.

As someone who has read so many books on Queen Elizabeth II, I found this biography both charming yet still informative. Far too much talk of Harry and Megan (who he obviously doesn't like), far too little mention of Prince William and Catherine. Is this George Gage the Roman Catholic dispatched to Rome by James I, or the South Carolina Supreme Court judge? 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. What Brandreth can uniquely offer us are verbatim replies to the questions he asked the Queen and Philip over many years—The Times[Brandreth] paints a vivid picture of the Queen .Enjoy this special edition now featuring new material about King Charles III's Coronation with photographs. She found the Duke of York’s account of his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein “intriguing”, worried that the Duke of Sussex might be a little “over in love” with Meghan, and found some solace in the gritty police drama Line of Duty after the death of the Duke of Edinburgh.