Elizabeth
II: In Private. In Public. The Inside Story. 9 April 2026
by Robert
Hardman (Author)
‘Sensational’
Daily Mail
Published
for her centenary, Elizabeth II is a brilliant new portrait of the late Queen,
full of fresh revelations. From the Sunday Times number one bestselling author
of Charles III, it is the essential story of her life and record-breaking
reign.
Biographer
and royal commentator Robert Hardman has had unique access to the world of the
late Queen – including family, staff, advisers and even the last state visitor
of her record-breaking reign, President Donald Trump himself.
As
daughter, wife, mother and sovereign, Elizabeth lived fascinating parallel
lives, both in private and in public. But she remained something of a mystery –
beloved, even revered, modest yet daunting, naturally shy but globally
recognizable, inscrutable and also authentic. She was grand but so familiar
that we felt we knew her. Yet we would always be left asking the same question:
‘What’s she really like?’
The only
biographer to have interviewed all the senior members of the Royal Family, some
of them several times, no one has written more authoritatively on Queen
Elizabeth II than Robert Hardman. Here he has crafted a gripping story of
drama, devotion, triumph, tragedy, humour and conflict; of an outwardly
stoical, inwardly complex woman whose love of family, love of country and duty
to the Crown might have pulled her in different directions but never derailed
her; a global stateswoman who wielded her great authority with charm and
understatement.
Elizabeth
II will explain why the Queen was not merely the most famous woman in the
world. She was one of history’s all-time greats.
‘If you
read one biography on Elizabeth II, this is the one . . . magnificent’ – Simon
Sebag Montefiore, author of The World: A Family History
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