A Queen for All Seasons, Joanna Lumley
A Queen for All Seasons, Joanna Lumley
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A Queen for All Seasons
A Celebration of Queen Elizabeth II

Author: Joanna Lumley

Narrator: Joanna Lumley

Unabridged: 8 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/28/2021


Synopsis

'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

A sparkling celebration of our much-loved Queen Elizabeth II including special writings and illuminating insights around key moments in her 70-year reign, introduced and edited by Joanna Lumley.

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, edited and introduced by Joanna Lumley, 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 to form a vibrant portrait of the woman herself and the extraordinary role she played.

Joanna Lumley guides us as we meet Princess Elizabeth in 1952, aged just twenty-five, and about to become Queen, and in more recent times when, as our matriarch, the Queen kept the national ship steady through seven decades, including in moments of crisis and suffering. Here are unique perspectives into some of the most fascinating aspects of the Queen's life - her role as head of state at home and abroad, her private passions and public interests and a bird's-eye look at key events that have held the nation together and the Queen in our affection throughout Britain and beyond.

This book is a special and unique portrait of the life of Queen Elizabeth II.

(P)2022 Hodder & Stoughton Limited

About Joanna Lumley

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Clive on December 20, 2021

In 2022, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will have reigned over us for 70 years. Joanna Lumley, actress, author and political activist, has written this celebration of a woman she admires, in time for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. It is not a warts and all exposé. It’s a tribute that includes contrib......more

Goodreads review by Lulabelle42 on July 29, 2022

A lovely portrait of Queen Elizabeth II through the eyes of her subjects, selected by Joanna Lumley. It's difficult to fathom that Queen Elizabeth II has been a ruler for longer than most of our lives. She ascended to the throne in 1952 and has held the job since then. She's been working, every day......more

Goodreads review by Books By Your Bedside on March 21, 2022

Books about the Queen are not few and far between (that’s all the rhyming you’ll get from me), especially in this jubilee year, but there’s something special about this one. I mean, for starters, it is written by Dame Joanna Lumley who is a Queen in her own right, but it’s so sensitively, lyrically,......more

Goodreads review by Molly on January 07, 2022

I read this book in a week. It was a beautiful portrayal of the Queens life and everything she has gone through; her fathers death, a fire, princess Margaret’s death,her mothers and more recently her beloved husband. Although I am young I still think I’m one of the biggest fans of the queen. She has......more

Goodreads review by Mark on June 09, 2022

Lovely and touching. Ms Lumley gathers the tales of the queen like little dishes, perfectly arranged and in just the right portion. I like the style of selected anecdotes, all perfectly flowing from one section to the next, with the lushness of Lumley's own memories and words connecting them through......more


Quotes

Lovely...Delivers the warmest of glows TELEGRAPH

You couldn't ask for more cheerful company than Joanna Lumley to lead you through an anthology of the Queen...moving Daily Mail

A fascinating portrait of Her Majesty My Weekly

You'll find interesting snippets about protocol, fashion and events - its definitely one to pull out after the Queen's Speech on Christmas Day. PRESS ASSOCIATION

A touching tribute to a remarkable woman Woman

Full of golden memories from people of all walks of life, it offers a wonderful and unique insight into Her Majesty's life THE PEOPLES FRIEND

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