Queen’s Jubilee: “Elizabeth II has humor to spare”

HASauthor of Queen of Our Times. The Life of Elizabeth II (MacMillan 2022), Robert Hardman, Royal Chronicler at DailyMail since 2001, ranks Queen Elizabeth among the “extraordinary” personalities. On the occasion of her jubilee, he devotes a biography to her in which he insists on the subtle mixture of shyness and confidence which, according to him, characterizes the queen.

In his work, he goes well beyond the portrait of a queen, he is also interested in the woman she is. To the mother she was also and who rectifies the image conveyed for four seasons now by the series The Crown broadcast by Netflix. For this, he relied on testimonies from his relatives, including members of the royal family, but also from his staff, and even had access to rare documents…