02788cam a2200325 4500 721308163 TxAuBib 20230323120000.0 ||||||s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781643139104 164313910X B09841662K Amazon bc1012a1-e420-45ad-bdd4-1f3e3564f716 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 6383094 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Hardman, Robert. Queen of Our Times [Libby (Advantage)] : The Life of Queen Elizabeth II. Pegasus Books, 2022. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 24MB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. HTML:<b>The definitive portrait of Queen Elizabeth II by a renowned royal biographer.</b><br /> <br /> <b>As seen on Good Morning America, CNN, and the BBC</b><br /> Shy but with a steely self-confidence; inscrutable despite ten decades in the public eye; unflappable; devout; indulgent; outwardly reserved, inwardly passionate; unsentimental; inquisitive; young at heart.<br /> <br /> Even with her recent passing at age ninety-six, she remains a twenty-first century global phenomenon commanding unrivalled respect and affection. Sealed off during the greatest peacetime emergency of modern times, she has stuck to her own maxim: "I have to be seen to be believed."<br /> <br /> Robert Hardman, one of Britain's most acclaimed royal biographers, now wraps up the full story of one of the undisputed greats in a thousand years of monarchy. Hardman distills Elizabeth's complex life into a must-read study of dynastic survival and renewal. It is a portrait of a world leader who remains as intriguing today as the day she came to the Throne at age twenty-five.<br /> <br /> With peerless access to members of the Royal Family, staff, friends, and royal records, <i>Queen of Our Times</i> brings fresh insights and scholarship to the modern royal story. There will be no more thorough, more readable, more original book on Elizabeth II as we celebrate a life and reign that, surely, will never be equaled. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2023-03-23 20:00:02. Advantage title. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=bc1012a1-e420-45ad-bdd4-1f3e3564f716&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=bc1012a1-e420-45ad-bdd4-1f3e3564f716&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=bc1012a1-e420-45ad-bdd4-1f3e3564f716&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)