Drawing on the private correspondence and other hitherto unpublished material from the Royal Archives for his authorized biography, William Shawcross vividly reveals the qualities that endeared Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, to those who knew and loved her personally and to the nation as a whole. Her zest for life, her devotion to duty and her love and patronage of the arts are all here, as is a sense of the person beneath the façade. In 1995 he wrote and presented the BBC television series Monarchy, followed in 2002 by his landmark BBC television series, Queen and Country, a revealing and intimate insight into the Queen.

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