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Can I read Elizabeth : a biography of Her Majesty the Queen on EtoBox?
Elizabeth : a biography of Her Majesty the Queen by Bradford, Sarah, 1938- is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Elizabeth : a biography of Her Majesty the Queen about?
To write Elizabeth - published on the occasion of the Queen's seventieth birthday - Sarah Bradford has spent a decade peering behind the Buckingham Palace facade, drawing on private archives and on her unprecedented access to the royal family to produce a uniquely intimate and revealing biography of Elizabeth from her birth to the present day. Bradford has interviewed political figures, courtiers, Palace employees, and friends of the Queen - many of whom have never spoken publicly about her until now - to build up a portrait of Elizabeth as celebrity and symbol of British history, as executive and mother. In the course of her research, Bradford has uncovered extensive new private material about the Windsors, which throws fresh light on the family's many complex relationships and on the major crises in its history, such as the ill-fated affair between Princess Margaret and Peter Townsend and the bitter public breakup of the marriage of Prince Charles and Princess Diana. The British monarchy has undergone great changes since Elizabeth succeeded her father, George VI, in 1952, and the story of Elizabeth and her family is in many ways the story of those changes. Yet Elizabeth is not on
Who reads Elizabeth : a biography of Her Majesty the Queen?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Bradford, Sarah, 1938-
- Publisher
- New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
- Published
- 1996
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780374147495
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Memoir, Fiction, History
- Rating
- 4.08 / 5 (12 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14