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Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon -- the ninth of the Earl of Strathmore's ten children -- was born on August 4, 1900, and, certainly, no one could have imagined that her long life (she died in 2002) would come to reflect a changing nation over the course of an entire century. Written with unrestricted access to her personal papers, letters, and diaries, this royal biography by William Shawcross is also a singular history of Britain in the twentieth...
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2002.
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English
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The year 2002 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Elizabeth II's accession to the British throne. To celebrate this occasion, William Shawcross, an award-winning writer and journalist, has written an intimate and revealing portrait of the Queen and an absorbing narrative of how the faces of the monarchy, Britain, and the world have changed over the past fifty years. Britain today bears little resemblance to the country the Queen inherited in 1952. There...
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