Queen of Our Times: The Life of Elizabeth II

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Elizabeth was dutiful, reserved, reluctant to be the centre of attention, reticent with emotions and opinions. By the second decade of the 21st century, the Queen had become the focal point of a revival of monarchy, driven by the two princes William and Harry. Autor w swej książce ukazuje nam portret władczyni, jakiej nie znamy i pozwala nam lepiej zrozumieć globalny wpływ królowej Elżbiety II oraz jej znaczenie na arenie międzynarodowej.

With peerless access to members of the Royal Family, staff, friends, and royal records, Queen of Our Timesbrings fresh insights and scholarship to the modern royal story. When discussing current affairs or politics, particularly foreign affairs, she never seems bored by it, or tired by it. The book was wonderfully paced with multiple interviews and primary sources that painted a full and clear picture for me. Complemented by an array of revealing personal photographs, the narrative alternates between heartfelt nostalgia about the seedier side of Manhattan’s go-go scene and funny quips about her unconventional stage performances. The sentence – meaning, President and friends' – was a short one, but she could not afford to mispronounce it.

Overall this is a fascinating and detailed history, not only of the Queen and the royal family, but of the UK - both politics and society - in the 20th-early 21st centuries. They have demonstrated that your fate is not completely sealed by birth into the State system because, whether already King or merely in the line of succession, you can step away from public service to the monarchy. The Duke of Windsor’s famous dalliances culminated in his choosing to marry the American, Wallis Simpson and abdicate to the throne to King George VI (Queen Elizabeth’s father), who was raised the spare, not the heir.

Also, the author’s denunciation of The Crown TV series became tedious quite quickly – yes, we get it, it’s a drama, not a documentary.This book was written in a positive manner and included so many things that I have never learned before. The book covers many areas her relationship with heads of government up to the short tenured final one of her reign ,it goes over the long relationship with Winston Churchill who advised her on many subjects the Abdicated Edward who would pop up later as a Nazi supporter with promises of his crown replaced. The chapters covers all the state visits both here and abroad and holding them here ,not as shown on the Crown but Obama did seem to be a favourite. But in Robert Hardman's defense, an elegant, readable, page-turning synthesis of 100 years of history is an impressive feat in its own right.

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. As ever, however, the danger came from within, in this case the war between the Sussexes and the Cambridges. Autor położył nacisk na rządy królowej, a wszelkie dworskie niesnaski zostały sprowadzone na margines - cała uwaga jest skupiona na Elżbiecie i jej panowaniu, a dramaty z udziałem królewskiej rodziny stanowią jedynie tło. Robert Hardmanis the author of Queen of Our Times; Her Majesty;and Queen of the World,all available from Pegasus Books. This is a new biography of the Queen and her role published for the Platinum Jubilee earlier this year, taking her life and reign up until the beginning of 2022 (so some of the references to record-breaking and transition are now redundant).Sealed off during the greatest peacetime emergency of modern times, she has stuck to her own "I have to be seen to be believed. He makes light of the press comparing two Duchesses, alleging there is no conspiracy, just that someone lacks a sense of humour.