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A Queen for All Seasons

A Celebration of Queen Elizabeth II
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A Queen for All Seasons by Joanna Lumley is a delightful homage to Queen Elizabeth II, capturing her life and reign through a tapestry of personal reflections, historical insights, and captivating anecdotes. With a blend of warmth and admiration, Lumley offers a unique perspective on the monarchy's impact on both the nation and the world. This biography celebrates the Queen’s remarkable journey with a touch of nostalgia and deep respect.
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You might enjoy this book if you are fascinated by the extraordinary life of Queen Elizabeth II and appreciate the wit and insights of Joanna Lumley. This memoir offers a charming and personal perspective, full of anecdotal warmth and historical reflection, chronicling the Queen's reign and impact over the decades.

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A Queen for All Seasons

A sparkling celebration of the late and much-loved Queen Elizabeth II including special writings and illuminating insights around key moments in her reign, introduced and edited by her biggest fan Joanna Lumley.

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'Lovely... delivers the warmest of glows' - Telegraph

'Who wouldn't love this chocolate-box delight of insights and snapshots of The Queen...A treasure chest' - Good Housekeeping

In 2022, Queen Elizabeth II celebrated seventy years as Queen and Head of the Commonwealth. She was Britain's longest reigning monarch and the very first to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee.

A Queen for All Seasons is a perceptive, touching, and engaging tribute to this unique woman: a treasure chest of first-hand writings, insights, and snapshots of The Queen during key moments of her reign and life, through to her death in September 2022.

Joanna Lumley guides us as we meet Princess Elizabeth in 1952, aged just twenty-five, and about to become Queen, and brings us through to the twenty-first century. In the role of matriarch, The Queen kept the national ship steady through seven decades, including in moments of crisis and suffering.

Together this forms a vibrant portrait of the woman herself and the extraordinary role she played.

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Joanna Lumley's A Queen for All Seasons is praised for its warmth and engaging company, offering a moving and fascinating portrait of the Queen. Readers appreciate its insights into royal protocol, fashion, and events, making it a delightful tribute and a treasure chest of memories.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781529375947

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 April 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Hodder Paperback

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 26.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 320

About the Author

Joanna Lumley was born in Kashmir and educated in Malaysia and Sussex. She has spent much of her life in books, reading them night and day, and sometimes even writing them. Reading is the prop and mainstay of her life, but she has wrenched herself away to act in theatre, films and television, criss-crossing the globe with television documentaries and lending her voice to as many deserving causes as she can.

Dazzled by the wit and wisdom of others, she cuts out and keeps treasured pieces she wishes she had written herself. She is married to the conductor Stephen Barlow who reads all the time: theirs is a quiet household.

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