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Marie Claire
Marie Claire
Lifestyle
Kristin Contino

Queen Elizabeth Made History By “Normalizing” One Crucial Aspect of Royal Life, Says Biographer

Queen Elizabeth sitting in a chair in a green dress and laughing.

Queen Elizabeth would have turned 100 on Tuesday, April 21, and as the Royal Family carries out events to mark her life and reign, a new biography of the late Queen is revealing one of the “most important” lessons she left for her heirs.

In Elizabeth II: In Private. In Public. Her Story, author and royal journalist Robert Hardman explores the intricacies of the late Queen’s public and private personas, and he wrote that she differed from the Kings and Queens before her in one major way.

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