early life 88, 88, 89, 90
investiture 90–1, 91
and Lord Mountbatten 104, 105, 143
and Princess Diana 72, 105–6, 107, 115, 119, 120–2, 125, 128, 133, 142
Queen’s Coronation 9, 13, 14
Charlotte, Princess 147, 147
Churchill, Winston 24, 40, 42, 50, 62, 66–7, 86, 134, 153
Clinton, Bill 123
Commonwealth of Nations 49, 92, 104
Diamond Jubilee 144, 146
future of 154
tours of 61, 66, 80, 98–9, 102, 106
Coronation (1953) 6, 8–17, 63, 65, 69
Crawford, Marion ‘Crawfie’ 27, 28, 30, 34, 43, 45, 52
Crossman, Richard 92
The Crown 152, 152, 153
Diamond Jubilee (2012) 143–4, 145
Diana, Princess 97
death 128–30, 129, 132, 138
and Prince Charles 72, 105–7, 115, 119, 120–2, 125, 128, 133, 142
Dimbleby, Jonathan 106, 124
Dior, Christian 70
Douglas-Home, Alec 67, 86
Eden, Anthony 67, 86
Edward, Prince 90, 83, 85, 118, 120, 133
Edward VII, King 110
Edward VIII, King 24, 25, 28, 30, 32, 34, 65
Elizabeth, the Queen Mother 16, 18, 126, 133
100th birthday 135
George VI 30, 63
horses and dogs 96, 97
ill health and death 116, 123, 136–8
marriage 21–2, 21, 23
Elizabeth I, Queen 10, 22, 34, 43, 45, 63, 155
engagements 75–7, 132
Eugenie, Princess 119
European Economic Community 92, 154
Fagan, Michael 92, 150
Ferguson, Sarah (Duchess of York) 107, 119, 120, 125, 133
Fisher, Geoffrey 9, 12–13
Foy, Claire 152, 152, 153
Freud, Lucian 68
George, Prince 116, 146, 147, 147, 155
George IV, King 108
George V, King 20, 24–5, 27–8, 55, 110, 155
George VI, King 32, 33, 34
Coronation 8–9, 10, 16, 18, 28, 29, 30–1
death 60–3
Elizabeth II’s marriage 46, 50, 52, 53, 57
marriage to Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 20, 21–2, 23
WWII 34, 35, 36, 42, 108
Gilbey, James 107, 120
Golden Jubilee (2002) 138, 138, 139
Grenadier Guards 37, 38, 39, 61
Grigg, John (Baron Altrincham) 76–7
Harry, Prince 106, 128, 143
Hartnell, Norman 10, 11, 52, 54, 56–7, 66, 70, 86
Heath, Edward 92
Hewitt, James 107, 125
Hitler, Adolf 34, 35
Kelly, Angela 70, 71
Khalid, King 100
Knight, Clara ‘Alah’ 22
Kufuor, John Agyekum 112, 113
Laurence, Timothy 119, 123, 139
Leibovitz, Annie 69
Levine, Chris 69
Lichfield, Patrick 69
MacDonald, Margaret ‘Bobo’ 25, 70
Macmillan, Harold 67, 85, 86
Major, John 115, 121, 122
Malta 60, 60
Mandela, Nelson 126, 127
Margaret, Princess 13, 18, 35, 63, 70, 97
early life 24, 25, 26, 30, 47
ill health and death 108, 133–4, 136, 137, 138
and Peter Townsend 64–6, 86
and Tony Armstrong-Jones 86, 92, 103
WWII 35, 36, 36, 37, 37, 42
Mary, Queen 18, 31, 52, 55
death 64
and Elizabeth 22, 27, 47, 61, 67, 155
George VI’s death 62, 63
Mary II, Queen 10–11
Mary Tudor 10
Middleton, Catherine (Duchess of Cambridge) 142–3, 145, 146
Mirren, Helen 141, 151–2, 151
Monroe, Marilyn 75, 75
Morgan, Peter 151, 152–3
Morton, Andrew 105, 119, 120
Mountbatten, Lord 45, 46, 60, 104
Muggeridge, Malcolm 77
Obama, Barack and Michelle 113
Order of the Garter 78–9, 78
Palace of Holyroodhouse 78, 109
Parker Bowles, Camilla (Duchess of Cornwall) 107, 116, 123, 124, 125, 138–40, 145
Philip, Prince 79, 109
career 58, 59, 60
children 58–9, 72
Elizabeth’s coronation 9, 14, 15, 62, 63–4
Golden Jubilee 138, 138
Golden Wedding anniversary 130–2
horses 97, 114
marriage to Elizabeth 18, 44–61, 80–1, 121
public engagements 81, 83, 145–6
Royal Family 88–9, 89, 90
tours 99, 102
Phillips, Mark 96–7, 119
Phillips, Peter 103, 146
Phillips, Savannah 146
The Queen 141, 151–2, 151
Reagan, Ronald 101, 113–14, 114
Rhodes, Margaret 45, 94
Rhys-Jones, Sophie 133
Roberts, Monty 97
Royal Family 88–90, 89, 90
Royal Variety Performance 77
Sandringham House 110, 115
Sapphire Jubilee (2017) 148
Second World War (1939–45) 34–42, 47
Silver Jubilee (1977) 98, 102–3, 102, 103
Simpson, Wallis 28, 30, 65
South Africa 46–9
State Banquets and Visits 111–15
State Opening of Parliament 79, 80, 118
Thatcher, Margaret 104, 115
Townsend, Peter 64–6, 86
Trooping the Colour 77, 78, 92, 95
VE Day 124–5, 124
Victoria, Queen 10, 44
and Prince Albert 45, 84, 118
reign 10, 11–12, 20, 30, 62, 63, 143, 147, 154, 155
royal residences 108, 109, 110
Warhol, Andy 68
Wilding, Dorothy 69
William, Prince 116, 145, 147, 155
and Catherine Middleton 142–3
early life 106, 128
Prince Philip 83
Wilson, Harold 86–7, 92
Windsor Castle 108, 111, 114–15, 121–2, 130
Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations
Author’s Note
‘The English’ – said one of Elizabeth II’s female ancestors – ‘like queens.’ She might have added that the Scots, the Welsh and a good many others do, too. This queen, Elizabeth II, has been an important part of the backdrop to so many lives across the British Isles and beyond. As a child, I was taken to watch the Silver Jubilee procession from a balcony above the Mall. As a young woman, I went to a Buckingham Palace garden party. As an adult, I’ve toured Windsor, Sandringham, Holyroodhouse, and dined aboard Britannia, I’ve commented on royal affairs for numerous TV news programmes and documentary series, and perched high in Broadcasting House while the 2011 royal wedding unfolded, as one of the team providing live coverage for BBC Radio 4.
I have also written books about Elizabeth II’s famous predecessor Elizabeth I, and newspaper articles comparing her to her fellow Diamond Queen Victoria. (A comparison, I may say, out of which our present queen emerges very favourably!) Of course, a queen regnant in the sixteenth or even the nineteenth century occupied a very different position to her twenty-first-century successor. But all the same, what strikes me is how many of the problems – and the patterns – continue down to the present day.
When Elizabeth I died in 1603, after what was then a notably long reign, a contemporary wrote that the shock of the news ‘took away hearts from millions.’ A whole nation had been ‘brought up under her wing’ – had ‘never shouted any ave but for her name.’ You don’t need to be an ardent monarchist to derive the same sense of continuity from Elizabeth II. When she acceded to the throne in the spring of 1952, Winston Churchill declared that ‘Famous have been the reigns of our queens.’ The reign of Queen Elizabeth II will be famous above all for the change
s it has seen. But as in the spring of 2017 it reached an extraordinary tally of sixty-five years, she herself remains an iconic figure of reassuring stability.
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