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The Life and Legacy of Queen Elizabeth II
The longest-reigning monarch to ever grace Britain’s throne, Queen Elizabeth II, passed away on September 8, 2022 at the age of 96. The world seemed to stop when news of the Queen’s death began circulating and people from around the world shared their sympathies for her family. Queen Elizabeth II’s life was a powerful example of female leadership and feminism in a modern society dominated by male leaders. Her rule inspired generations of girls, showing them that women could lead while using their voices for the greater good.
Elizabeth was born on April 21, 1926 to the Duke and Duchess of York. She had one sister, Margaret Rose, who was born in 1930. For much of her early life, Elizabeth and her sister were schooled by a governess and spent their free time playing games and running outside. Elizabeth loved dogs, especially corgis, and horses. Princess Elizabeth and Margaret lived an ordinary childhood while their grandfather George V was King, but when he died in 1936, everything changed.
After George V’s death, Princess Elizabet
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A Biography That Captures the ‘Sheer Oddity’ of Being Queen
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When history remembers Queen Elizabeth II, it reliably hits the same beats. An upper-class English countrywoman happiest among her horses and corgis, she inherited a title that put her at a remove from everyone she met. She became professionally inscrutable; omnipresent and yet impersonal. She was, many accounts would agree, a difficult person to know, even among those close to her. But what we don’t talk about nearly enough is the effect all that stoicism had on others. Face-to-face with the queen, her subjects became their strangest selves, yammering on about dachshunds’ sleeping habits or the history of garden vegetables.
As the satirist and critic Craig Brown tells it in his new biography, A Voyage Around the Queen, the late monarch existed in a world scrubbed and polishedto its highest possible sheen, populated by people who seemed always in the middle of a meltdown. Cataloging these fumbling exchanges is where Brown’s 672-page tome
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Call Number: 942.085092 E43Smi
ISBN: 9781400067893
Publication Date: 2012-01-10
In this magisterial new biography, New York Times bestselling author Sally Bedell Smith brings to life one of the world's most fascinating and enigmatic women: Queen Elizabeth II. From the moment of her ascension to the throne in 1952 at the age of twenty-five, Queen Elizabeth II has been the object of unparalleled scrutiny. But through the fog of glamour and gossip, how well do 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 public and private lives of Queen Elizabeth II, who has led her country and Commonwealth through the wars and upheavals of the last sixty years with unparalleled composure, intelligence, and grace.
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