A Voyage Around the Queen wer. angielska

Forster confessed he would have married her, if only she had been a boy. Queen Elizabeth II was famous for longer than anyone who has ever lived. When people spoke of her, they spoke of themselves when they dreamed of her, they dreamed of themselves.

She mirrored their hopes and anxieties. To the optimist, she seemed an optimist to the pessimist, a pessimist to the awestruck, charismatic and to the cynical, humdrum. Though by nature reserved and unassuming, her presence could fill presidents and rock gods with terror.

For close to a century, she inhabited the psyche of a nation. Combining biography, essays, cultural history, dream diaries, travelogue and satire, the bestselling and award-winning author of Ma’am Darling and One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time presents a kaleidoscopic portrait of this most public yet private of sovereigns. – ‘An unconventional tribute that offers a snapshot of almost a century of social history with a mix of royal insanity, and superior anecdotes, from farts and corgis to Paul McCartney and poets laureate’&nbsp