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Brought to you by Penguin.THE NO 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER NOW FEATURING EXCLUSIVE MATERIAL ABOUT CHARLES III''s CORONATION WITH ADDED PHOTOGRAPHSA personal account of the life and character of Britain''s longest-reigning monarch, from the writer who knew her family best''Compelling . . . Fascinating'' DAILY MAIL''The writer who got closest to the human truth about our long-serving senior royals'' THE TIMES''The book overflows with nuggets of insider knowledge'' TELEGRAPHPaints a unique picture of the remarkable woman who reigned for seven decades. Fascinating insights'' HELLO!__________Gyles Brandreth first met the Queen in 1968, when he was twenty.Over the next fifty years he met her many times, both at public and at private events. Through his friendship with the Duke of Edinburgh, he was given privileged access to Elizabeth II.He kept a record of all those encounters, and his conversations with the Queen over the years, his meetings with her family and friends, and his observations of her at close quarters are what make this very personal account of her extraordinary life uniquely fascinating.From her childhood in the 1920s to the era of Harry and Meghan in the 2020s, from her war years at Windsor Castle to her death at Balmoral, this is both a record of a tumultuous century of royal history and a truly intimate portrait of a remarkable woman.Enjoy this special edition now featuring an exclusive postscript about King Charles III''s Coronation with photographs.__________Praise for Gyles Brandreth''s bestselling royal writing:''Beautifully written book. I have read many other books about Philip but this is the best'' DAILY EXPRESS''Brilliant, totally inspiring . . . It''s a joy to read a book that comes from a perspective of fondness'' KIRSTIE ALLSOPP, THE TIMES''As a sparkling celebration of Prince Philip, the book will be hard to beat'' TELEGRAPH''So readable and refreshing even after the millions of words that have been written about Prince Philip in the past couple of weeks'' THE TIMES''Brilliant . . . There is so much in this book you won''t find anywhere else'' LORRAINE©2022 Gyles Brandreth (P)2022 Penguin Audio

Brought to you by Penguin. The long-awaited autobiography from beloved star of Just a Minute, QI, Have I Got News For You and Celebrity Gogglebox.There are few people Gyles Brandreth doesn''t know or hasn''t met - from the Queen to the Sex Pistols, Mandela and Marlene Dietrich to TS Eliot, he''s the celebrities'' celebrity, as familiar and welcome to us on radio and screens as biscuits are to a cup of tea.Now a grandparent, looking back on his remarkable life, he traces his steps back to being a three-year-old tearing around 1950s London on his tricycle, to boarding school where he had an appendix removed simply to get out of football, to Bedales, where he met Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (and became intimate with a matron), to balancing his growing love of theatre with his love for educating, the ''woolly jumper years'', the stint as an MP, the years of close friendship with the Queen, to becoming a septuagenarian Twitter star and stalwart fixture in British entertainment.Throughout it all, there are lessons to be learned as Gyles derives wisdom and wit from his extraordinary encounters. Full of stories and full of heart, this is Gyles as you don''t yet know him.© Gyles Brandreth 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021