Philip and Elizabeth: Portrait of a Royal Marriage by Gyles Brandreth

Philip and Elizabeth: Portrait of a Royal Marriage by Gyles Brandreth

Privileged access to both the Queen and Prince Philip is the key to this revealing and engrossing royal biography. This is the first major biography of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburghboth 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 worldyet 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, told with candor and authority, and illustrated with Prince Philip's family photographs and pictures from the Queen's royal collection. 40 pages of illustrations.

Broadcaster, interviewer, novelist, children’s author, and biographer, Gyles Brandreth has been involved in the work of the National Playing Fields Association, whose patron is the Queen and whose president is the Duke of Edinburgh, for twenty-five years. He lives in England.

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ISBN 13	9780393061130
ISBN 10	0393061132
Title	Philip and Elizabeth: Portrait of a Royal Marriage
Author	Gyles Brandreth
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	WW Norton & Co
Year published	2005-11-18
Number of pages	472
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