Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch

Title: Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch Author: Sally Bedell Smith ISBN: 9780812979794 Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks Published: 2012 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: Used: Near Fine Y 1634000 Publisher Description: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - This "excellent, all-embracing" (The New York Times) biography of Queen Elizabeth II is a magisterial study of the woman known only from a distance--and a captivating window into her decades-long reign. From the moment of her ascension to the throne in 1952 at the age of twenty-five, Queen Elizabeth II was the object of unparalleled scrutiny. But through the fog of glamour and gossip, how well did we really know the world's most famous monarch? Drawing on numerous interviews and never-before-revealed documents, acclaimed biographer Sally Bedell Smith pulls back the curtain to show in intimate detail the p