For 70 years, the world saw Queen Elizabeth II as a model of restraint. Her calm, composed and famously unreadable personality kept an air of mystery around the Royal Family. But behind palace doors, she could be far more direct, dryly funny and even a little “sharp,” as royal biographer Robert Hardman shares.
In his latest book, Elizabeth II: In Private. In Public. Her Story, Hardman paints a picture of a monarch who sized people up quickly, spoke her mind when it mattered, and became more decisive with age.
