| Monarch:
The Life and Reign of Elizabeth II
the US edition of Royal
The Free Press, Simon & Schuster New York,
2002.
“In Monarch, Robert
Lacey makes you feel like you’re right
there – in the palace, in the castle …
I was absolutely riveted.”
Dominick Dunne
“An exemplary book.”
Martin Amis, The New Yorker
“Robert Lacey [is] peerless
… because he better than anyone sees the
modern English monarchy for what it is.”
Newsweek
“A definitive study.”
Houston Chronicle
“A mature and thoughtful
discussion of the public’s evolving relationship
with the British royal family.”
Library Journal
“An absorbing page-turner
that approaches the royals, and their legendary
scandals, with dignity and élan, illuminating
Elizabeth II’s reign in ways that even
non-Royal watchers can appreciate.”
The Record (Bergen Country, N.J.)
“Lacey’s
portrait is sympathetic … he also offers
an incisive analysis …setting this apart
form and far above the average by-the-numbers
royal bio.”
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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more than fifty years, Elizabeth Alexandra Mary
Windsor – who became Elizabeth II, Queen
of England on February 6, 1952 – has been
loved and loathed, revered and feared, applauded
and criticized by her people. Still she endures
as a captivating figure in the world’s
most durable symbol of political authority:
the British monarchy.
In Monarch, a meticulously detailed portrait
of Elizabeth II as both a human being and an
institution, bestselling author Robert Lacey
brings the queen to life as never before: as
baby “Lillibet” learning to wave
to a crowd in the Royal Mews; as a child “ardently
praying for a brother” so as to avoid
her fate; as a young woman falling in love with
and marrying her cousin Philip; and as the mother-in-law
of the most complicated royal of all, Princess
Diana.
Updated with new material to reflect the 2002
Golden Jubilee and the passing of the Queen
Mum – and featuring dozens of photographs,
a family tree of the Hanoverian-Windsor-Mountbatten
families, and a map that charts the location
if royal castles – Monarch is an engaging,
critical, and celebratory account of Elizabeth’s
half-century reign that no reader of popular
history should be without.
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