Robert Hardman is an internationally renowned writer and broadcaster, specializing in royalty and history for more than twenty-five years. He is the author of several international bestsellers. His previous book, Charles III, was a Sunday Times number one for four weeks, and Queen of Our Times: The Life of Elizabeth II was the 2022 Sunday Times Biography of the Year. Hardman has also written Monarchy: The Royal Family at Work; Our Queen; and Queen of the World.He has interviewed the then Prince of Wales for several films, including the BBC’s Charles at 60; Prince William for his book Our Queen; the late Duke of Edinburgh for the BBC’s The Duke: In His Own Words; and the Princess Royal for ITV’s Anne: The Princess Royal at 70. Most recently, Hardman has written and co-produced the BBC films Charles III: The Coronation Year and Prince Philip: The Royal Family Remembers, for which he interviewed a dozen members of the Royal Family.A member of the BBC commentary team at all the major state occasions of recent times, including the Coronation of Charles III and the funerals of Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Hardman is an award-winning journalist for the Daily Mail and lives in London.

An unmissable portrait of a modest and endlessly fascinating giant of modern history – from the master of royal biography. All Robert Hardman’s books have brought riveting new stories to light, none more so than this peerless new study of Elizabeth II – and in her centenary year, too

Robert Hardman is an internationally renowned writer and broadcaster, specializing in royalty and history for more than twenty-five years. He is the author of several international bestsellers. His previous book, Charles III, was a Sunday Times number one for four weeks, and Queen of Our Times: The Life of Elizabeth II was the 2022 Sunday Times Biography of the Year. Hardman has also written Monarchy: The Royal Family at Work; Our Queen; and Queen of the World.He has interviewed the then Prince of Wales for several films, including the BBC’s Charles at 60; Prince William for his book Our Queen; the late Duke of Edinburgh for the BBC’s The Duke: In His Own Words; and the Princess Royal for ITV’s Anne: The Princess Royal at 70. Most recently, Hardman has written and co-produced the BBC films Charles III: The Coronation Year and Prince Philip: The Royal Family Remembers, for which he interviewed a dozen members of the Royal Family.A member of the BBC commentary team at all the major state occasions of recent times, including the Coronation of Charles III and the funerals of Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Hardman is an award-winning journalist for the Daily Mail and lives in London.

An unmissable portrait of a modest and endlessly fascinating giant of modern history – from the master of royal biography. All Robert Hardman’s books have brought riveting new stories to light, none more so than this peerless new study of Elizabeth II – and in her centenary year, too