ELIZABETH: AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT (HB)

Gyles Brandreth first met the Queen in 1968, when he was twenty. Over the next fifty years he met her many times, both at public and at private events. Through his friendship with the Duke of Edinburgh, he was given privileged access to Elizabeth II. He kept a record of all his encounters and conversations with the Queen over the years, and it is his observations of her at close quarters that make this very personal account of her life uniquely fascinating.