# Elizabeth

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- Book: [Elizabeth](https://www.bookquiver.com/sarah-bradford/elizabeth) ([Elizabeth.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/sarah-bradford/elizabeth.md))
- Authors: [Sarah Bradford](https://www.bookquiver.com/sarah-bradford)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4100-655-0
- Pages: 592
- Published: 2002-02-28
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The Queen lived through nearly a century of immense change and upheaval. Her own family experiences, a mixture of happiness and crisis, weddings and divorces, and, in the case of Diana, violent death, have been lived in the glare of tabloid headlines. More than 2 billion people watched the wedding of her grandson Prince William to Catherine Middleton in 2010 shortly before she made the first State Visit to Ireland by a British monarch for 100 years. Our world has changed more in her lifetime than in any of her predecessors': and before her death, the Queen remained a calm presence at the centre, earning the respect of monarchists and republicans. How did she do it? __________________________ 'The only book that could overtake it is the autobiography, which in this case will never be written' Spectator 'Bradford has a real grasp of history and the ability to make it spark into new life' Sunday Telegraph 'Bradford's forte, ever since she was a history-mad girl, is thinking herself into other lives' Daily Telegraph