Queen Of Our Times

The definitive portrait of Queen Elizabeth II by a renowned royal biographer. As seen on Good Morning America CNN and the BBC Shy but with a steely selfconfidence inscrutable despite ten decades in the public eye unflappable devout indulgent outwardly reserved inwardly passionate unsentimental inquisitive young at heart. Even with her recent passing at age ninetysix she remains a twentyfirst century global phenomenon commanding unrivalled respect and affection. Sealed off during the greatest peacetime emergency of modern times she has stuck to her own maxim I have to be seen to be believed. Robert Hardman one of Britain’s most acclaimed royal biographers now wraps up the full story of one of the undisputed greats in a thousand years of monarchy. Hardman distills Elizabeths complex life into a mustread study of dynastic survival and renewal. It is a portrait of a world leader who remains as intriguing today as the day she came to the Throne at age twentyfive. With peerless access to members of the Royal Family staff friends and royal records Queen of Our Times brings fresh insights and scholarship to the modern royal story. There will be no more thorough more readable more original book on Elizabeth II as we celebrate a life and reign that surely will never be equaled.