What Queen Elizabeth Is Really Like — and What Her Friends Felt 'The Crown' Got Wrong
Queen Elizabeth.Photo: Joe Giddens/POOL/AFP via Getty When it came to capturingQueen Elizabeth’s storied life and record-breaking 70-year reign, royal biographer Robert Hardman kept coming back to the same simple notion: The Queen likes being Queen. Hardman’s book comes at a tumultuous time for the 95-year-old monarch: She recentlyrecovered from COVID—“She is very good at taking doctor’s orders,” he says—and she’s dealing with personal issues within the royal family, including the death of her beloved husband,Prince Philip, last April and her sonPrince Andrew’s fall from grace....