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