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The Last Queen

Name: The Last Queen
ISBN: 9781785905858

The Remarkable Story of Elizabeth II's Seventy-Year Reign and the Future of the Monarchy

Clive Irving,

320 pages
English
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eBook - ePub

The Last Queen

The Remarkable Story of Elizabeth II's Seventy-Year Reign and the Future of the Monarchy

Clive Irving,

About this book

"Clive Irving's immensely readable book brings real authority, context and personal insight to our understanding of the Queen … The Last Queen is as entertaining as it is essential, and I read it with gusto." – Tina Brown, author of The Diana Chronicles

"A brilliant and gripping analysis of the monarchy and the House of Windsor by the master of investigative journalism." – Robert Lacey, author of Battle of Brothers

"Sensational" – Daily Express

"Fascinating" – FT Magazine

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'The Firm', as the royal family styles itself, judged by real corporate standards, is a mess. Any consultants called in from outside to scrutinise its inner workings would find all the familiar flaws of a family business that has outgrown its original scale and design. There is no overall strategy, just a collection of warring divisions pursuing their own ends.

And this will be a profound problem when the Queen dies, because make no bones about it, the Queen's mortality determines the mortality of the monarchy. Under Charles III, the monarchy can never be the same; indeed, its very survival is in doubt.

In The Last Queen, pioneering investigative reporter Clive Irving paints a revelatory portrait of Elizabeth II's extraordinary reign, setting it within the dramatic transformation of Britain itself over the same period. Now expanded to include the death of Prince Philip, the fallout from Megxit and the banishment of Prince Andrew, this compelling account asks: how long will the institution survive beyond the second Elizabethan era?

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