The Queen, Andrew Morton

In this entertaining and insightful biography of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, award-winning writer Andrew Morton, author of Diana, Her True Story, takes you behind the scenes to uncover the woman and her world.\n\nFor years she prayed for her mother to give birth to a son. She longed to be spared her destiny as Britain\u2019s future Queen. Her dream was to live in the country surrounded by children, dogs and horses.\n\nBut Elizabeth did her duty, the young princess pledging before her people that she would dedicate her whole life to the service of Britain and the Commonwealth. She hoped that that day would be a long way off. It was not to be. Only twenty-five when she became Queen after the premature death of her father, King George Vl, Elizabeth has become the stuff of superlatives: the longest reigning, most travelled and, for a shy woman, the Queen who has shaken more hands and made more small talk than any other monarch in history. She has been seen an.