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| 'Is there no branch of literature that Giles Brandreth has not excelled?...It is no surprise that this thoroughly unique joint-biography both should be so authoritative and substantial...wonderfully readable.'
Sally Cousins Sunday Telegraph
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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. The Queen's childhood was loving and secure, the Duke's was turbulent: his grandfather assassinated, his father arrested, his family exiled, his parents separated when he was only ten. Elizabeth and Philip met as cousins in the 1930s. They married in 1947, aged twenty-one and twenty-six. A little more than four years later, they were Queen and consort. For almost sixty years theirs have been among the most famous faces in the world - yet the personalities behind the image remain elusive and the nature of their marriage is an enigma. Philip & Elizabeth tells the extraordinary story of these two contrasting lives, assesses their achievement, together and apart, and explores the nature of their relationships, with one another and with their children. Here is a unique royal biography: the author has met all the principal players in the story; he quotes no anonymous sources; he has had privileged access to the Queen; he has known the Duke of Edinburgh over twenty-five years and has interviewed him. This is a powerful and revealing portrait of a remarkable partnership, told with authority and unique insight, and illustrated with Prince Philip's family photographs and pictures from the Queen's royal collection.
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| A most engagingly intimate volume
Evening Standard
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| Filled with insights - He has had enviable access and he has used it well
Penny Juror, Telegraph
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| I don't normally read royal books, but this is different. It's fascinating stuff and wonderfully readable
Michael Parkinson, BBC Radio 2
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| Sympathetic...wholly original... profound and unfailingly interesting
Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday
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| The most insightful portrait of Prince Philip written to date
Robert Lacey, Sunday Times
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| The writer who got closest to the human truth about out long-serving senior royals
Libby Purves, The Times
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Arrow • Biography: royalty • Previous
ISBN: 0099446731
Publication date: 05/05/2005 • 576 pages • B format • EAN: 9780099446736 |
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