Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

Author: [British] Robert
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Publish Date: 1985-12-02
Features: This book is a biographical work about the current British Queen written by the renowned British biographer Robert Lacy, published in the United States in 1977. After its publication, it was selected as a featured recommendation by the New York "Monthly Book Club." Many famous American newspapers and magazines gave it high praise. The "Washington Post" reviewed the book as "a successful biography of the Queen," "vivid, elegant, and compassionate." "Newsweek" said it was "engaging and worth reading." With rich materials and vivid writing, the book introduces Queen Elizabeth II's colorful personal temperament and life as a monarch from childhood to the mid-1970s, as well as the origins of her family and the characteristics of the constitutional monarchy system. Through the author's description of Elizabeth, the status of the British monarch in British political life is vividly illustrated—the monarch is a nominal head of state but still plays a crucial role at critical moments.