In the crowd of spectators outside Westminster Abbey for the wedding of Prince Andrew to Sarah Ferguson in the summer of 1986, a woman explained that she had come to see the Queen, not the bridal couple. ‘She’s it, really, isn’t she, I mean, she’s the Realm,’ she explained.
For seven decades, Elizabeth II has been ‘the Realm’, the living embodiment of monarchy in Britain. How she has gone about her unique calling, her successes and challenges, are the subject of Matthew Dennison’s ninth biography, The Queen, recently published following British serialization in The Mail on Sunday and, in the States, in Town and Country magazine, and described in the Sunday Telegraph as ‘a superb portrait of Her Majesty’.
On Friday 8 October, at 7pm, Matthew will discuss his first book about a living subject, on stage in The Holroyd Community Theatre. Tickets, which are free, are available from www.theholroydtheatre.co.uk.
commented former royal scourge John Grigg.
