Elizabeth: A Monarch for Modern Times, 1980-2011
Book Details
Author(s)George Coupe
PublisherTelegraph Media Group
ISBN / ASINB008B6GHOS
ISBN-13978B008B6GHO8
Sales Rank957,624
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
To mark the 2012 Diamond Jubilee, celebrating 60 years of the Queen's reign, The Daily Telegraph newspaper in London has produced a unique historical biography of her life, in three volumes, based on material from its extensive archives.
When Princess Elizabeth was born in 1926, a Telegraph reporter was outside the house in Bruton Street, Mayfair, and followed the comings and goings of the royal visitors and noted the reaction of those in the crowd.
This was the first of many contemporaneous accounts of the Queen’s life published by The Telegraph, Britain's leading quality newspaper. This vast seam of material, which runs almost without interruption through the newspaper’s archive, represents a unique version of her story, and is the basis of this three-volume eBook.
The stories and pictures from The Telegraph archive, gathered over more than 85 years by correspondents and photographers, bring to life one of the great figures of the 20th and 21st centuries. There are reproductions of key front pages and many pictures. The coverage - extending to more than 110,000 words across the three volumes - also paints a vivid picture of a changing world in which only her reign has been a constant.
This third volume - Elizabeth: A Monarch for Modern Times, 1980-2011 - takes us through some of the most difficult periods for the Queen and her family, times when the very existence of the monarchy appeared to be in jeopardy.
We follow her through her "annus horribilis" of 1992, when the marriages of all her eldest children ended and fire swept through a large part of Windsor Castle, her favourite home, to the low points of 1997, when Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed in a car crash in Paris, and 2002, when her mother and sister died within two months of each other. Finally, we see a resurgent Queen emerge, still full of vigour in her 80s, revered once again by her subjects.
When Princess Elizabeth was born in 1926, a Telegraph reporter was outside the house in Bruton Street, Mayfair, and followed the comings and goings of the royal visitors and noted the reaction of those in the crowd.
This was the first of many contemporaneous accounts of the Queen’s life published by The Telegraph, Britain's leading quality newspaper. This vast seam of material, which runs almost without interruption through the newspaper’s archive, represents a unique version of her story, and is the basis of this three-volume eBook.
The stories and pictures from The Telegraph archive, gathered over more than 85 years by correspondents and photographers, bring to life one of the great figures of the 20th and 21st centuries. There are reproductions of key front pages and many pictures. The coverage - extending to more than 110,000 words across the three volumes - also paints a vivid picture of a changing world in which only her reign has been a constant.
This third volume - Elizabeth: A Monarch for Modern Times, 1980-2011 - takes us through some of the most difficult periods for the Queen and her family, times when the very existence of the monarchy appeared to be in jeopardy.
We follow her through her "annus horribilis" of 1992, when the marriages of all her eldest children ended and fire swept through a large part of Windsor Castle, her favourite home, to the low points of 1997, when Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed in a car crash in Paris, and 2002, when her mother and sister died within two months of each other. Finally, we see a resurgent Queen emerge, still full of vigour in her 80s, revered once again by her subjects.
