About the book
A fascinating and intense analysis of Elizabeth II’s early years as princess and queen, and their historical context. This first book corresponds to the first season of the series The Crown, one of the best biographical series of all time, which faithfully reflects the personal life of the British monarch, but also the post-war world, the political rivalries and the events that have shaped the second half of the 20th century.
A must-read for fans of the television series, packed with additional information, archival photographs and full-color photos.
Written by the series’ historical consultant, royal biographer Robert Lacey, The Crown: The Inside Story details and analyzes in-depth the events shown on screen in an intimate portrait of life at the royal palace. Buckingham and at number 10 Downing Street.
FOREWORD BY PETER MORGAN
What is real and what is invented? What is truth and what is fiction? What happened? What didn’t happen? It has become clear that many viewers have been browsing Wikipedia pages while watching the series in search of answers to these questions. It was an extraordinary pleasure to write The Crown, and to analyze the many vivid characters that make up the narrative in the period from 1947 to 1955. However, it was truly agonizing to condense ten dramatic, event-filled years of history into just ten hours of television, So the idea that the historian of the Royal Family, Robert Lacey, accepted the challenge of organizing everything and separating fact from fiction, in addition to telling us many more anecdotes, I loved it. So I leave you with Robert to transport you to 1947, when the King realizes that he is seriously ill and his eldest daughter, the shy twenty-one-year-old Princess Elizabeth, is about to marry a handsome but wayward young foreigner. about whom everyone seems to have reservations…
Robert Lacey is the historical consultant for The Crown series. A renowned British historian and author of numerous international bestsellers, including Majesty, his ground-breaking biography of Queen Elizabeth II, Robert has been writing about the Queen and her extraordinary life for more than forty years.
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