Elizabeth II
- Author Robert Hardman
- Narrator Robert Hardman
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Publish Date 9 April 2026
- Run Time 13 hours and 40 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Biography: historical, political and military, Biography: royalty, European history, Political leaders and leadership, Regional, state and other local government, Social and cultural history.
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What to expect
Read by the author, Robert Hardman.
An intimate, authoritative, richly entertaining new portrait of Elizabeth II in her centenary year from the Sunday Times number 1 bestselling author of Charles III.
Biographer and royal commentator Robert Hardman has had unique access to the world of the late Queen – including family, staff, advisors and even the last state visitor of her record-breaking reign, President Donald Trump himself.
As daughter, wife, mother and Sovereign, Elizabeth lived fascinating parallel lives, both in private and in public. But she remained something of a mystery – beloved, even revered, modest yet daunting, naturally shy but globally recognizable, inscrutable and also authentic. She was grand but so familiar that we felt we knew her. Yet we would always be left asking the same question: ‘What’s she really like?’
The only biographer to have interviewed all the senior members of the Royal Family, some of them several times, no one has written more authoritatively on Queen Elizabeth than Robert Hardman. Here he has crafted a gripping story of drama, devotion, triumph, tragedy, humour and conflict; of an outwardly stoical, inwardly complex woman whose love of family, love of country and duty to the Crown might pull her in different directions but never derailed her; a global stateswoman who wielded her great authority with charm and understatement.
Elizabeth II will explain why she was not merely the most famous woman in the world. She was one of history’s all-time greats.
'If you read one biography on Elizabeth II, this is the one . . . magnificent’ – Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The World: A Family History of Humanity
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