<p><b>In this entertaining and insightful biography, award-winning writer Andrew Morton, author of Diana, Her True Story and Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters, takes you behind the scenes to uncover the woman and her world.</b><br><br>For years she prayed for her mother to give birth to a son. She longed to be spared her<br>destiny as Britain’s future Queen. Her dream was to live in the country surrounded by<br>children, dogs and horses.<br><br>But Elizabeth did her duty, the young princess pledging before her people that she would<br>dedicate her whole life to the service of Britain and the Commonwealth. She hoped that<br>that day would be a long way off. It was not to be. Only twenty-five when she became<br>Queen after the premature death of her father, King George Vl, Elizabeth has become the<br>stuff of superlatives: <b>the longest reignin</b>g, most
