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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: last queen
    sub title: Elizabeth II's seventy year battle to save the House of Windsor
  name:
    name part: Irving, Clive
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    edition: First Pegasus books cloth edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 357 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: A timely and revelatory new biography of Queen Elizabeth (and her family) exploring how the Windsors have evolved and thrived, as the modern world has changed around them, and probing the question of the British monarchy's longevity. In 2021, the Queen Elizabeth II finally appears to be at ease in the modern world, helped by the new generation of Windsors. But through Irving's unique insight there emerges a more fragile institution, whose extraordinarily dutiful matriarch has managed to persevere with dignity, yet in doing so made a Faustian pact with the media. This is not a conventional biography and the book is therefore not limited by the traditions of that genre. Instead, it follows Elizabeth and her family's struggle to survive in the face of unprecedented changes in our attitudes towards the royal family, with the critical eye of an investigative reporter who is present and involved on a highly personal level.
  table of contents: Preface -- The accidental queen -- The wayward sister -- Royal family values -- A feud behind the throne -- "The monarchy will not survive ..." -- Enter Tony stage left -- The shock of change -- A rival called Camelot -- Mocking their Britannic majesties -- The trouble with Philip -- Money trouble -- Beware the kingmakers -- The slumber of centuries -- The man who knew far too much -- A titan passes, a tragedy strikes -- How much promiscuity can a marriage take? -- A great pageant and a disappeared documentary -- A king takes his secrets to the grave -- A year of disgrace -- The long and scandalous legacy of Dickie Mountbatten -- The radiant one -- A last lunch with Tony -- Two women at the top -- The most famous person in the world -- Where is the Queen? -- The next king -- Diana's boys -- The Sussexes say goodbye -- The monarchy in the time of apocalypse -- Afterword.
  note: Clive Irving.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (page 349) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk-en
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Windsor, House of
  subject:
    name:
      name part: II, Queen of Great Britain
      name part: Elizabeth
      name part: 1926-
  subject:
    topic: Queens
    geographic: Great Britain
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Monarchy
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: History
    temporal: Elizabeth II, 1952-
  subject:
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: Kings and rulers
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
    topic: Royalty
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
    topic: Women
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
    geographic: Europe
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: General
  classification: DA590 .I78 2021
  classification: 941.085092
  identifier: 9781643136141
  identifier: 1643136143
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 200706
    record change date: 20210728154233.0
    record identifier: in00004443675