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Philip and Elizabeth

Portrait of a Royal Marriage

By Gyles Brandreth

Paperback | 9780393329490

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"Great fun to read; written with bouncy charm, but shot through with penetrating insights."—Sunday Telegraph

This is the first major biography of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh—both royal, both great-great-great grandchildren of Queen Victoria, but in temperament Continue

"Great fun to read; written with bouncy charm, but shot through with penetrating insights."—Sunday Telegraph

This is the first major biography of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh—both royal, both great-great-great grandchildren of Queen Victoria, but in temperament and upbringing very different people. Her childhood was loving and secure, his turbulent: the Duke's grandfather was assassinated, his father arrested, his family exiled, his parents separated by the time he was ten. For almost sixty years theirs have been among the most famous faces in the world—yet the personalities behind the image remain elusive, and the nature of their marriage is an enigma.

Gyles Brandreth has met all the principal players in the story. He quotes no anonymous sources; he has known the Duke of Edinburgh for twenty-five years and has interviewed him. This is a unique and revealing portrait of a remarkable partnership. 40 pages of photographs.

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  • I'd like to make it with you, ma'am

    Philip and Elizabeth: Portrait of a Marriage by Gyles Brandreth Century £20, pp384 Princesses: The Six Daughters of George III by Flora Fraser John Murray £25, pp400 So now we know - thanks to the prurient intercession of that woolly-pullied royal pl ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • Small plums in a suety mass

    This is a very rum book indeed. Purporting to be a ‘portrait of a marriage’, the subtitle is supposed to recall Nigel Nicolson’s brilliant account of the unusual marriage of his parents, Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville West, which was, I suppose, ... (read full critics)

    spectator published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

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Book Details

  • English Books
  • Paperback 432 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0393329496
  • ISBN-13: 9780393329490
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton
  • Pub date: Nov 06, 2006
  • Dimensions: 200 mm x 140 mm x 30 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover and eBook
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